February 2012
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Why I Hate Beauty | Psychology Today →
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“One of the things I find frustrating about modern feminist critique,” Elise...”
– The billion-dollar battle over premenstrual disorder - Gender - Salon.com
“The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a...”
– Pearls Before Breakfast
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“There are now many historians who study popular culture, lowbrow entertainment,...”
– Thaddeus Russell, A Renegade History of the United States (New York: Free Press, 2010), xi.
“Facebook for me has always had the echoey effect of a mansion that a crowd of...”
– Facebook study shows insecure users’ posts are more likely to annoy their friends.
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“Are words actually any use to describe what pain (or passion, for that matter)...”
– Alphonse Daudet (via)
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“In a diary entry of 1948, [Trilling] recognized the danger of submission to a...”
– Allan Massie, Does Lionel Trilling matter? (rev. of Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kitsch), TLS, Feb. 1, 2012 