…Our cul- pleasure or strength. In part we fear success itself— ture has a universal myth in which we see emotion we fear that understanding might spoil enjoyment. as more complex and obscure than intellect. In- Rightly so: art often…
…Fayyad is fair. His optimistic smile obscured an impossible situation: Fayyad's main achievement has not been to build the structures of a Palestinian state, but to stave off the collapse of those structures that did exist. An equally important…
…and obscurity in 1942 in Larchmont New York). When Nabokov arrived in 1940, he brought with him at best an obscure reputation limited to émigré circles. He was in desperate straits. Among those prepared to help him were Serge Rachmaninoff…
…12/7, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports US officials are charging China with increasingly flouting international sanctions on North Korea, no longer bothering to try to obscure some of the efforts. One senior State Department official said, "It is not…
…one of the greatest Eurasian powers, emerged out of the labor and talent of Osman, an obscure early-14th-century chieftain, a warrior among many on the borderlands of the Byzantine Empire. So beguiling was the advance of this Ottoman…
…about injury and discomfort the problem that bothered Freud. The cake-joke reminds us, somewhat obscurely, to avoid a certain kind of logical absurdity lest we do ourselves some vaguely understood cognitive harm. Hence our thesis: since we have no…
…may he an exception. but if it has selective take explicit steps to make our future important difference. consequences comparable with those of cries of alarm or mating calls. they are obscure. The more …
…7.57M) reports US officials are charging China with increasingly flouting international sanctions on North Korea, no longer bothering to try to obscure some of the efforts. One senior State Department official said, "It is not particularly disguised or hidden…
…may he an exception. but if it has selective take explicit steps to make our future important difference. consequences comparable with those of cries of alarm or mating calls. they are obscure. The more …
…the fate of Alexander Zemlinsky who died in penury and obscurity in 1941 in Larchmont New York). When Nabokov arrived in 1940, he brought with him at best an obscure reputation limited to émigré circles. He was in desperate straits…
…capabilities. There would be no more obsession with the Middle East, no more draining wars in obscure parts of the world when the real game was obviously in a rising Asia. Yet the reaction has been both unexpected and revealing…
…buildings. • The proposed construction of a nearly 80-foot structure above the Music Room will materially destroy the view and obscure the light source for those viewing the property from 71st Street looking southward (and those from 70th street looking…
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