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Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart
Minds Mute Poetry Excess Advanced Arithmetic Like Bourgeois Piercing Around Overly Go Personal Avant-Garde Decorative Technical Imagined
In a lot of ways, I had a wonderful childhood. Alissa Quart
Wonderful Ways Had Lot Wonderful Childhood Childhood
Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was. Alissa Quart
Fashion Me Failure Experience Feeling Live Distinct Has-Been Cross Having Between Like Because Built Been Left Up Child Did Then Created
Precariousness is not just a working-class thing. Alissa Quart
Just Working-Class Thing
Like politics, all status is ultimately local - people compare themselves to those they live near. Alissa Quart
Politics People Live Local Those Status Like Ultimately Themselves Compare Near
Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location. Alissa Quart
Day Woman Every Day Every Considered Location Out Would Would-Be City Costs Entrance Another Housing Proverbial Affluent Going Door Poor Separate Your Even Residents
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.' Alissa Quart
Loyalty Book First Starts Teenagers Wrote Selling Brand Branded Cradle Ends Grave Buying
To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying. Alissa Quart
Easily Annoying Sure Cultural Mocked Many Elite
The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all. Alissa Quart
Own Controlling Corporation Say Possessed Would Would-Be Rather Vehicles Effect Than Different Autonomous Them Profoundly
I grew up in New York City and in London. Alissa Quart
City London New Up York New York New York City Grew
In the local state school I attended in England, I saw and heard far more awareness of where a person stood in the social hierarchy than I had ever heard stateside. Alissa Quart
School Awareness State Local Saw Hierarchy More Had Attended Heard Than Person Stood Where Social Far England Ever
When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm. Alissa Quart
Morning Me Mother Young Books Synonymous Boots Carrying Arm She Off Child Blue Young Child Teach Aspiration Professional Each Her
I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero. Alissa Quart
Love Character Hero Main Main Character He Hedge Show Billions Fund Basically
Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement. Alissa Quart
Achievement Parents Press High Hopes Adulthood Children Succeed Them Who Preparing
Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses. Alissa Quart
Home Training Other System Gifted Divides Part Like Schooling Private Childhood Children Products Home Schooling Activity Elements
When I was 13, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground made more sense to me than anything else. Alissa Quart
Me Made Sense Else More Velvet Underground Reed Lou Reed Than Anything Anything Else
The Southern California arena rock, hair metal, laidback hippie garden culture - for many growing up in the '70s and '80s, none of it made us who we were like Lou Reed did. Alissa Quart
Garden Culture Made Hair Arena Like California Metal None Rock Hippie Reed Were Up Lou Reed Southern Southern California Did Us Who Many Growing Growing Up
On the surface, public schools can seem egalitarian, especially with their websites' emphasis on words such as 'connection,' 'community,' and 'choice.' Yet despite this democratic vocabulary, money makes a big difference. Alissa Quart
Words Money Websites Big Community Public Schools Despite Seem Vocabulary Emphasis Democratic Schools Makes Surface Big Difference Egalitarian Difference Public Choice Connection
The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide. Alissa Quart
Education Public Education Parents Homework Addition Stay-At-Home Some Costly Consultants Supplement Longer Test Provide Afford List Children Public Tutors Help Prep Growing Now Services
Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities. Alissa Quart
Considering Responsibilities Particularly Always Educational Been Poorly Requirements Paid Teaching Profession
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities. Alissa Quart
Science Enthusiasm Humanities Way Gin More Part Tap Up Offers Popular Funding
As the world of independent feature filmmaking became increasingly commercialized by the mid-1990s, there was also a parallel, much more positive development: a resurgence in documentary filmmaking, thanks in part to the advent of the cheaper, lighter digital format that helped to offset the daunting costs of pursuing political aims through film. Alissa Quart
Positive World Political Digital Thanks Increasingly Aims Independent Parallel More Costs Feature Daunting Through Pursuing Resurgence Part Cheaper Lighter Advent Development Also Documentary Became Offset Format Much Helped Film Filmmaking
I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an existential level, they might have done their best by us, but I think, in terms of the reality principle, maybe less so. Alissa Quart
Love Best You Reality Parents Think Our Telling Do What You Love Terms Principle Were Existential Families Trying What You Love Done Maybe Might Us Less Level
Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don't necessarily understand. Alissa Quart
You World Motherhood Our Way Range Ways Colleagues Seeing More Gives Employers Makes Understand Access Intellectual Different Experiences Which Flexible Workplace Necessarily
Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.' Alissa Quart
Work Love Sense Part Well Fairly Because Prisoners Labor Oh Different Much Poorly Workers Paid Different Things Why Things Two Need
One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class. Alissa Quart
Financial Project Financial Support One Thing Direct Economic Support Journalists Nonprofit Doing Were Providing Reporting Who Thing Hardship
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