And I struggle with the unfairness of this dreadful dichotomy: my greatest joy and their worst pain.
The first time I really thought about the dichotomy between my Irish name and my race was when I took an online course in 9th grade through Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth.
The renovation of the hotel was also a metaphor for rejuvenation and transformation in my own life and in my family, as well as part of my personal journey to reconcile the dichotomies in my life as a mother, entrepreneur and a lover of art and culture who has lived on several different continents.
"I think also that for the sake of drawing sharp distinctions you rather overdo the dichotomy of my 'severe' and 'simple' styles," Copland wrote to Berger in April 1943.
"I had created a false dichotomy in my head," he said, "that you could make challenging films that lived in the super tiny art-house circuit, or you could make commercial films that by default couldn't be challenging".
This fascinating dichotomy, in my opinion, is the product of how compensations are set combined with the economics of organizational structure.
I continue to struggle with the dichotomy between my misgivings and the clear necessity for help.
Even before I get to the question of quality, however, I must touch base on the great hot dog dichotomy, and my grand preference.
I was sitting around, maybe in the dark Delta or maybe in some unthinkable trench somewhere, with that sound in my mind and the dichotomy of the highlands with that seemed to be a path worth pursuing.
I can't call myself a feminist without a PhD student reaching out to conduct an interview, because somehow the "dichotomy" of my identities is interesting- as though the complexity of who I am and what I believe can be ground up and melded down to fit into two roughly hewn opposing labels.
