My son and I were talking yesterday about the amount of trauma and loss that this pandemic will bring. He is a young adult and is often the one to bring balance to my knee jerk A or Z reaction to many things. I wondered aloud about the long term negative emotional impact of this on...
Bob (“spare a bob or two”) –a pound; (historically, a bob was slang for a shilling but inflation has raised its value!) Bobby –affectionate slang term for a policeman; derived from the nickname for Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the Metropolitan Police. Often used in the phrase:...
Lynn Brittney takes us deep into WWI London, we meet Gang leaders, prostitution rings, white slavers, drug dealers, Molly houses (another new term for me), and gambling dens. Suspects, and witnesses, range from the elite of society to gutter rats, and the team grows as different leads are...
When Karina returns to college for fall term, she sees her friend everywhere, and every time, Rainey looks a little worse for the wear. Soon, Karina discovers she’s not the only one who can see Rainey–as well as other disembodied spirits–and that she might be destined to become a Be...
In his Critique of Cynical Reason, for example, Peter Sloterdijk observes that the technical term for giving pain and suffering a secular, metaphysical meaning is, obscurely enough, "algodicy." Portmann's survey of Schadenfreude is more tightly focused than the scope of algodicy: it begins ...
where a couple not yet bounded by matrimonial vows, decide to adopt its concept implicitly. One is a sufferer from an incurable, long term disease, afraid to get too close to someone in fear of being pitied upon, or unfairly bogging down and clipping another's wings when the other half ...
Checks are also run through the various intelligence files (a National Agency Check) to make sure while you’re applying for a job at the State Department you are not on some secret list of bad guys over at CIA. For some low-level or short-term clearances, the process can stop here ...
m amused by Giulia’s instructions to take ‘via Luigi Pirandello’. I think whoever was responsible for street names had a great sense of humour. This street from lower to upper Taormina is a hair-raising, gear-changing succession of hairpin bends – with as many twists as Pirandello plot...
A better term might be identity change form, since it’s full of questions about gender, profession, identifying item(s), and more. All of this data then becomes the Government’s official definition of you, and people you meet will be able to intuit that it’s accurate. (For those ...
which is not small by any measure — we still generally feel uncomfortable identifying with either term beyond the most perfunctory shorthand, like when d-bags in the locker room are talking about how they want to ‘bone some broad’ and they look in our direction for validation we’re like...