Vote Republican!" model is so popular this fall, you'd think a kind of amnesia gas is seeping out from our storm-sewer drains.
There is, I think, a kind of economistic myopia that applies here: we tend, all too often, to think in terms of a perfect, undistorted economy, and worry about anything that prevents all the marginal whatevers from being equalized.
Your story in this week's issue, "Cat Person," is both an excruciating bad-date story and, I think, a kind of commentary on how people get to know each other, or don't, through electronic communication.
The way people treat restaurant staff is, I think, a kind of poker tell, revealing a person's character in as long as it takes to say: "I'll have the sea bass".
"There is behind this, also, I think, a kind of status competition or imitation, that there is positive status in having a sort of 'big department muscle,' in smaller departments," said Franklin E. Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gopnik relates the case to claims of forgery made against Rembrandt, and offers this alternative view of authorship and attribution: A great artist is not, as a lot of people seem to think, a kind of burglar who leaves his fingerprints on luxury goods, but a poet, who creates a style so distinctive that poems in the style are his even when they're not.
Carson was a pediatric neurosurgeon and, people thought, a kind man, and that seemed to worry Hewitt.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Ehlers, a Michigan Republican who retired this year, said he thinks a kind of "reverse snobbery" keeps researchers out of public life.
But among them, I think, is a kind of relief at the idea of distinction independent of achievement.
This isn't fatalism, I think — really a kind of common-sense logic.
I thought, 'A new kind of enemy.' " With tears streaming down his face, Rabbi Schacter picked the boy up.
