Regarding "Honoring That Promise of Detention Reform" (editorial, Sept. 22) and "Border fantasies" (editorial, Sept. 23): The failure to improve the subhuman conditions in America's immigration jails and the obsession with building bigger and better fences along America's Mexican border, while doing nothing about real immigration reform, are symptoms of a deeper disturbance in U.S. society.
The therapists asked the children to draw two pictures each, and then kept an eye out for indicators of deep disturbance, like a picture by Trinity Williams, 7, that showed a figure swimming with a shark.
In the site-specific space of an airport baggage claim, the corps, led by a clearly maternal figure, employs gestures and cries to express a deep disturbance inflicted by the arriving artist's new haircut and appearance of fatigue.
Mr Littell's anti-hero shows signs of deep disturbance: an incestuous relationship with his sister, sado-masochistic homosexuality and a violent matricide form only a small part of a traumatic life.
At the finale, which plays, I think, as an expression of deep love and deep disturbance, Jamie moves between the figures of his mother and father, whose backs are now turned to us, as if they were figments of his imagination — as, indeed, they are.
The entire fable suggests that men, once they are no longer green, need some sort of obsession to get aroused that male sexual passion by its very nature is fetishistic in some way, and that ordinary love and deep disturbance are not so far apart.
The entire fable suggests that men, once they are no longer green, need some sort of obsession to get aroused — that male sexual passion by its very nature is fetishistic in some way, and that ordinary love and deep disturbance are not so far apart.
Can we read Washington's words of 1796 addressed "to the people of the United States," and compare Romney's words addressed to his donors in Jerusalem, and not feel a deep disturbance?
Chinese officials say reports about the attacks could incite more copycat assaults, and in any case the propaganda department is often quick to order a blackout on news that points to deep social disturbances in China.
Yet the deep-rooted disturbance of fairytale is missing.
