The Art of Human Surveillance

… chop glide under the table, and just when I’m about to let him know that I don’t want to have to tell him again about feeding Gustav from his plate, the chop disappears in the pouch of his hooded pullover.
He’s smooth. Through the rest of dinner, he sits composed as the …

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Response to Our Summer Issue

… superior. What I did gain was a real self-confidence and a belief that I could accom­plish anything.
However, when not busy biting the hand that feeds him, the author showed some real aptitude for identifying societal trends, just as he did in his earlier article, “Love on Campus.” His observations on the changing …

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Making Good

… Dr. Sam.”
“I do. I do like him! How can you not like Dr. Sam Rosen! What I don’t care for are his exercises to force-feed intimacy and pressure-cook healing.”
“Better than not cooking!” cried Gretel Mindel. “Here you and I are talking.”
“So we are,” Margot said.

In the afternoon session …

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The Torture Colony

… of the only known recordings of his voice. It is crisp and baritone. Back outside, Schaefer leads the television crew to a petting zoo, where the reporter feeds chunks of bread to baby deer and plays with the colonos’ collection of pet owls. The newsreel concludes with a performance by a 15-piece chamber orchestra …

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Burma: Captives of the Junta

… opium with their seed. Or that children often carry the birds home, keep them in glass jars, the lids poked with holes for air. Or that people feed the sparrows to pet lizards or snakes. Or that some deep-fry the little birds whole, eat them crispy and spicy, like they eat crickets and small …

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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

… out. Not just the Ivy League and its peer institutions, but also the mechanisms that get you there in the first place: the private and affluent public “feeder” schools, the ever-growing parastructure of tutors and test-prep courses and enrichment programs, the whole admissions frenzy and everything that leads up to and away …

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Over There

… demagogues, and ethnic cleansers.” Yet he extols the self-defeating brutalities and corruption on display in contemporary Palestinian politics under the aegis of Hamas as a shining example of democracy in the Middle East!
This harsh denunciation of Israel feeds Judt’s churlish charge that liberal intellectuals are “exploiting their professional credibility” to make a

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Pullovers

… They were so sweet, probably no dog or pheasant would eat them, though maybe a monkey would. After a neighbor’s dog bit me for trying to feed him the peanut butter sandwich from my lunch, Jumpei and I became skeptical about the dumpling story, but we didn’t think it was odd for Momo …

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Passing the Torch

… Ice melts from purely physical causes; melting can happen without a particle of life present. But fire cannot; it needs a biota in order to propagate. It feeds on that assembled biomass, and anything that shapes the biotic matrix will affect the kind of fire that results. Physical stresses must refract through a biotic prism …

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The Art of Doing

… class as a dumping ground for force-feeding dull students basic skills to prepare them for manufacturing or the trades. But for the same reason many tout a liberal arts education—not simply learning about the great works or the great people, but learning how to think, how to reason.
Shop class, in Sennett …

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