“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.” ShouldAudienceAtheismSubjectsJokesPositive AtheismContemporaryTrendsAlways BelieveAppreciative Author:Rowan Atkinson
“A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.” PeopleKnowsBookFactsTogetherCoursesAliveSubjectsResearchHarderContemporaryFakeTopics Author:Steven Pressfield
“I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.” BlackWhiteSubjectsContemporaryBlack And White Author:Noah Baumbach
“... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.” MenWorldMayIdeasSometimesHelpingSeemsHouseSubjectsCenturyLogicRegardStrikesContemporaryHelp MeDollsBrowsPedestalChivalryGallantry Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!” GivingHas BeensReasonUniverseAcceptingGenerationsSubjectsJudgingMethodVicesContemporaryRationalVisibleInnateThis GenerationBetween You And Me Author:Adelard of Bath
“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.” LongStillsMovingCultureLiteratureLeftViewsPowerfulFocusSubjectsRocksPoetSceneDrawsReflectionThirdsContemporaryComplexityCollectionsRock And RollRestlessShiftingEdgyVisceralStill Life Author:David St. John
“There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.” WorldSocialSubjectsContemporarySignificanceWomen's Education Author:Amartya Sen
“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.” KnowsArtRealProblemDreamRealityForceFictionKnow HowSubjectsSweetReturnReaderHistoricalProfoundSurfaceContemporaryEncountersBrutalSpectatorsIdeologicalKitschContemporary ArtSweet Dreams Author:Slavoj Žižek