The New Yorker, 2007-01-08

... a few geniuses, the most original ones, toward the art that is the privileged sphere of analysis, lucidity, irony; that is toward the novel. What is the French word that expresses the worst aesthetic reprobation the way the notion of kitsch expresses it for me? It finally comes to me: it is the word _ vulgaire , vulgarite . " Open Secrets " / Malcolm Gladwell Puzzles are “transmitter-...

... alike design for women based on stereotypes and "feminine cliches-- sensuality, softness, 'organic' shapes, pastel colors. Whenever one of us strayed from the accepted norms, we could feel the reprobation from the group..." Who better to understand the needs of female consumers than female designers? Yet many women designers want to be taken seriously in the field so they play down their ...

Totentanz!

...are mercy needing? 8 King of Majesty tremendous, who dost free salvation send us, Fount of pity, then befriend us! 9 Think, good Jesus, my salvation cost thy wondrous Incarnation; leave me not to reprobation! 10 Faint and weary, thou hast sought me, on the cross of suffering bought me. shall such grace be vainly brought me? 11 Righteous Judge! for sin's pollution grant thy gift of absolution, ...

Fate and Free-Will

... to have willed it and for no other reason. Had He commanded precisely the opposite course of conduct, that course would have been right by the mere fact of His having commanded it. Reprobation, therefore, was equally impossible and untenable. As might be expected, such a courageous expression of his convictions, so totally at variance with the accepted opinion of the day, was promptly rejected, ...