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Is Beauty for the Birds?
Is Beauty for the Birds? We set up our deck fountain fairly late this summer and — as a result, it seemed – no birds came. For weeks, they just stayed away. This was very disappointing, since we watch them … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetic distance, aesthetics, architectural genius, Art, beauty, beauty as objective, beauty as sacred, beauty as subjective, birdbath, birds congregating, cynicism, deck fountain, disputing over taste, environmental harmony, gossip, groupthink, hopelessness, inwardness, outward form, painting seascapes, pornography, propaganda, propaganda in art, quality and quantity, relativistic sophisticates, Roger Scruton’s “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, rudeness, sparrows, suspending disbelief, taste, the eye of the beholder, the qualitative, the quantifiable, the sacred, The Sistine Chapel, The Taj Mahal, ugliness, ugliness in art, water coolers, wrens
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“Success”
“Success” When I was about twenty-five, I said to a friend, “I thought, when I’d be twenty- five, I’d be at least wonderful. But I’m not.” What did I mean by “at least wonderful”? I think it meant, at home … Continue reading
Posted in academe, art, cool, culture, desire, erotic life, femininity, feminism, friendship, gender balance, history of ideas, literature, masculinity, philosophy, political, relationships, sexuality, social conventions, the examined life, the problematic of woman
Tagged Al-Quds University, Art, belle of the ball, Brandeis, Brandeis University, career, classical antiquity, Corporate ladder, failure and success, female philosopher, female professor, Fine art, friendship, Greek philosophy, Jerusalem, Jews, Kabbalah, Leo Bronstein, life goals, Marriage, paideia, philosophy, popularity, prophecy, Romance, Sari Nusseibeh, spirituality, Success, true love, twenty-five year old woman, wallflower, working woman, wunderkind
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“Invisibility”
Toulouse-Lautrec, ‘Ce qui dit la pluie’. “Invisibility” Invisibility can signal erasure. Qanta Ahmed’s In the Land of Invisible Women, subtitled A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, describes shopping for the author’s first abbayah (burqa), “a flowing robe that … Continue reading
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Tagged abbayah, American woman, androgyny, Art, Art Student's League, burqa, Chinese art, Henry Adams, In the Land of Invisible Women, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, invisibility, New York, New York City, orthodox, orthodox women, philosophy, Qanta Ahmed, Saudi Arabia, Toulouse-Lautrec, United States, Venus
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