"The agency had problems with misconduct, lack of sensitivity to immigrants, and violence along the border," he told me.
Discussions of safety and sensitivity to depictions of violence have been going on in administrative offices of arts groups all over the city.
Cosby, of course, has a particular sensitivity to the issue of guns and gun violence, since his son, Ennis Cosby, was shot and killed during a robbery attempt in 1997.
However, many young children are confronted with obstacles to healthy development, including poverty, inappropriate care, and violence, and their enhanced sensitivity to the social environment means that they are highly susceptible to these adverse childhood experiences.
Behind its stolid exterior and notionally nihilistic violence, however, there's an old-fashioned brothers-in-arms sensitivity to this tale of an American tank crew in Germany, grinding its way through the war's last gasp.
Late last month, its sensitivity to natural events was made clear when the network registered not only the colossal violence of big quake off Indonesia on Dec. 26 but, in the following two days, some 1,500 aftershocks.
Research indicates that perpetrators of domestic violence have abnormalities in central serotonin and testosterone metabolism, an increased sensitivity to anxiogenic stimuli, and an impaired neuro-connection between their cortex and the amygdala.
But French sensitivity to the Arabs in their midst, largely because of the potential for a spillover of violence from the Middle East, far outstrips that toward blacks here, he said.
Conley frets about the "psychic violence" of our increasingly unequal service economy, but his class-consciousness translates mostly into an acute sensitivity to embarrassment.
