Monday, December 29, 2014

270. Recently Marked Words


"the most unoppressed of the world's peoples" .... straight white males.  Charles Isherwood, New York Times.

"a superficial marker of profundity, like bringing Piketty to the beach"  Emily Nussbaum, New  Yorker, 12-15-14.

"He looked like a dog that had just been kicked by Albert Payson Terhune." .... registering sudden, incomprehensible betrayal.  Remembered from a Paul Kendall reference.

"the autodidact's anxiety about not knowing enough"  D. T. Max, New Yorker, 12-8-14.

"Squat and muscular, he looked as if he had been lifting weights and was still mad at them."   D. T. Max, New Yorker, 12-8-14.   Of Chris Burden.

"Art is long, and life is quite long too" .... looking at the proliferation of homes for the aged.  Zoë Heller, New York Times Book Review, 12-21-14.

"Twitter — that device helpfully enabling people to write faster than they can think"  Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review, 1-5-15.

In the U. S. today: "a culture so vulgar that a reality series entitled 'Dating Naked' engenders a collective yawn."  Judith Newman, NYT, 12-28-14.

"the bottomless joys of anal sex" .... one end of the range of recent soul-baring personal narratives.  Daniel Mendelsohn, NYT, 12-28-14.


"a fairly gay-friendly  community in a city of Midwestern reserve and Southern denial" .... the locale of a pastoral crisis.  Rhonda Mawhood Lee, NYT, 12-28-14.

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