on beauty
Psychology 220 with Hector at University of Tennessee - Knoxville
About this deck
By: Ryan Range
Textbook:
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)
Man's Search for Meaning
On Beauty
The Trial
Created: 2010-11-29
Size: 145 flashcards
Views: 1458
Textbook:
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) Man's Search for Meaning On Beauty The TrialCreated: 2010-11-29
Size: 145 flashcards
Views: 1458
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We refuse to be each other
h.j. blackham
"one may as well begin with jerome's emails to his father."
null
Is Jerome's dad responding to his emails?
no
Does Carlene Kipps pray?
yes
Who does Jerome hope to marry?
Victoria
Who is Murdoch?
The Besleys' daushand
Where is the new cleaner, Monique from?
Haiti
How much does kiki weigh?
250
What is Kiki's occupation?
hospital administrator
Who is monty's book about?
Rembrandt
Does Howard own a cellphone?
no
Does Howard smoke?
No
How old is Howard?
57
"not for the first time, kiki felt grateful she wasn't an intellectual"
null
jerome
“Jerome had fallen in love with a family. … ; [Jerome] had allowed the Kippses’ world and their ways to take him over entirely. He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism a fatuous dream; he thrilled at the suggestion that Art was a gift from God, blessing only a handful of masters, and most Literature merely a veil for poorly reasoned left-wing ideologies.”
Did Jerome and Victoria ever make love?
no
Kiki has an enormous bosom.
null
[Kiki] “began again, ‘There’re so many Haitians here …’ She dared a little further: ‘And of course it’s so difficult, in Haiti, right now.’
The man put the hub of each hand firmly on the table between them and engaged her eyes. ‘Yes. Terrible. So terrible. Now, every day --- terror.’”
The man put the hub of each hand firmly on the table between them and engaged her eyes. ‘Yes. Terrible. So terrible. Now, every day --- terror.’”
null
kiki
“But then, thought Kiki, they were brought up that way, these white American boys: I’m the Aunt Jemima on the cookie boxes of their childhoods, the pair of thick ankles Tom and Jerry played around. Of course they find me funny. … And this is another thing they do. They flirt with you violently because there is no possibility of it being taken seriously.”
Who did Claire dress up as for her wedding with Warren?
salome
Why did the Belseys go to the Boston Common?
to hear mozart
How long have Kiki and Howard been married?
30 years
How does Mozart’s Requiem begin?
walking toward the pit?
Does Zora read footnotes?
yes
Who slept during the Requiem?
Howard
Is Carl an educated brother?
no
Where did Levi work on Saturdays?
music mega store
On his way home Levi interacts with a “very old black lady.”
null
Does Kiki want to invite the Kippes to the party?
yes
How did Kiki react when she asked Levi to clean his room and he responded with, “Aw, fuck you, man.”
Kiki hit him and knocked him down.
With whom did Kiki have a conversation in front of a house on Redwood avenue?
Carlene
There is such a shelter in each other.”
null
Is Carlene an intellectual?
probably
Carlene to Kiki: “Truth is in a face, as much as it is anywhere. We women know that faces are full of meaning, I think.” … She laughed and put a hand to Kiki’s face. “You have a marvelous face, for example. And the moment I saw you I knew I would like you.”
null
Did Kiki invite the Kippses to the party?
yes
Who had Levi invited to the party?
Carl
Who was the lone swimmer in the pool?
levi
When confronted with the condom did Howard tell the truth?
no
From where is Monty Kipps?
Trinidad
Who has “… the largest collection of Haitian art in private hands outside of that unfortunate island.”?
Monty Kipps
Did Carlene come to the party?
no
How long was the affair between Howard and Claire?
3 weeks
How did Howard know the deception was over (“Howard realized it at once, …”)?
after 30 years you can read someones face
Howard can stay in the house, but can he come near Kiki?
No
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.
--- Elaine Scarry
--- Elaine Scarry
null
“Time is not what it is but how it is felt, and Zora felt no different. Still living at home, still a virgin. And yet heading for her first day as a sophomore.”
null
What did Zora lose and get back in the swimming pool?
goggles
Is Carl on the swim team?
no
What movement of Mozart’s Requiem does Carl discuss?
Lacrimosa
For how many years has Howard delivered the lecture series, CONSTRUCTING THE HUMAN: 1600-1700?
6 years
Did Howard want the e-mails of the students who attended the first class?
only if they seriously planned on taking the course
Did anyone know about Howard and Claire’s affair?
yes
Does Claire get to class on time?
no
null
“They [students] had an intense fear of their peers. And, more then that, of Howard himself. …”
“A careful preserved English accent also upped the fear factor. Howard let the silence stretch a little. He turned to the board and slowly unpeeled the photocopy, letting tongueless questions pelt his back.”
“A careful preserved English accent also upped the fear factor. Howard let the silence stretch a little. He turned to the board and slowly unpeeled the photocopy, letting tongueless questions pelt his back.”
Is Chantelle Williams a registered student at Wellington?
no
Does Zora get into Claire’s class?
yes
Among Kiki’s children, who is her strongest ally?
Jerome
“And then to ruin everything that had gone before Jerome said [to Kiki], in all seriousness, ‘God bless you, Mom.’”
null
Does Monty Kipps like PBS?
no
Where does the Hyppolite painting come from?
Haiti
Kiki lifted her left eyebrow in neat, devastating fashion: ‘Monty Kipps’s best friend is a gay man.’
Carlene gave a little shriek of amusement. ‘Goodness, he would never say that. Never! You see, he doesn’t think of it that way.”
Carlene gave a little shriek of amusement. ‘Goodness, he would never say that. Never! You see, he doesn’t think of it that way.”
null
“…, for Levi loved rap music; its beauty, ingenuity and humanity were neither obscure nor unlikely to him, …”
null
“There are so many different ways to need money. Levi didn’t need it like LaShonda needed it.”
null
On what day does Levi not want to work?
Christmas
What word does Bailey misunderstand?
coup/coop
“I myself have never been able to figure out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
null
How old is Howard?
57
null
“Once the class was finished she saw at once how she might have argued the thing just as viciously and successfully the other way around; defended Flaubert over Foucault; rescued Austen from insult instead of Adorno. Was anyone ever genuinely attached to anything? She had no idea. …
cont.
In the meantime, waiting like this, waiting to be come upon by real people, she felt herself to be light, existentially light, and nervously rumbled through possible topics of conversation, a ragbag of weighty ideas she carried around in her brain to lend herself the appearance of substance.”
null
“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”
Does Claire like American sitcoms?
no
What does Claire order to eat?
salad
“Claire was addicted to self-sabotage.”
null
Did Claire love Howard?
no
As Dr Byford explained, she [Claire] was really the victim of a vicious, peculiarly female psychological disorder: she felt one thing and did another. She was a stranger to herself.”
null
Who was at the lovely meeting on the sidewalk in Boston just before Thanksgiving?
zora, jerome, levi
What does Levi pick out of his muffins?
blueberrise
Does Zora like Victoria?
no
Where was Felix from?
Angula
“Try walking down the street with fifteen Haitians if you want to see people get uncomfortable.”
null
What do Levi and Choo do on the street?
sell fake purses
In the Rembrandt painting, with whom is Jacob wrestling?
The angel
Mike wears a T-shirt that says BEING on one side and TIME on the other side.
null
Who has Howard stopped trying not to look at?
Victoria
“Looking at her [Victoria] made him [Howard] feel open to ideas, possibilities, allowances, arguments that two minutes earlier he would have rejected.”
null
Whom did Carlene want to make a barnstorming speech to the Wellington College faculty?
Zora
Who went on a shopping trip into Boston?
Carlene and kiki
Does Kiki like the paintings of Edward Hopper?
yes
Did Carlene and Kiki take a train trip to Amherst?
no
Who died?
Carlene
To whom was the Jean Hyppolite painting willed?
kiki
About how many pounds sterling is the Hyppolite painting worth?
300,000
What was done with Carlene’s pencil written note about the Hyppolite painting?
thrown into fire
Does Howard like Mozart?
no
Who left the funeral early?
Howard
“As soon as his finger pressed the bell, Howard knew he’d made a mistake. He waited --- nobody came. Radiant with relief, he turned to go. It was the perfect visit: well intended but with no one at home.”
null
Is Howard’s mother alive?
no
“The unexamined life is not worth living. That had been Howard’s callow teenage dictum. Nobody tells you, at seventeen, that examining it will be half the trouble.”Term
null
. In what cemetery is Carlene Kipps buried?
Kensal green
Who is in the room of the second door that Howard opened?
Victoria
What fruit provides a comprehensive metaphor for Wellington students?
tomato
Who is the library in which the faculty meeting was held, named after?
Helen Keller
Are professors Burchfield and Fontaine for or against Howard?
against
“One lucky sod now escaped through the squeaky double-doors --- a feckless novelist on a visiting fellowship --- but she did not retire unobserved. Beady Liddy watched her go and made a note.”
null
A philosopher who was “Anti-Israeli” was kept off the Wellington campus.
null
A Wellington LesBiGay group decided “to picket and obstruct any lecture that the Professor [Kipps] might give at the college.”
null
“Jean-Paul Sartre: ‘We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are --- that is the fact.’”
null
Did Howard win the faculty vote?
no
Was Zora’s speech a success?
yes
with what student did Howard attend the Emerson Hall dinner?
victoria
After the Emerson Hall dinner and glee club singing, what book did Howard try to read?
alice in wonderland
Levi: “The experience of reading both books had wounded him. … He was overwhelmed by the evil that men do to each other. … He retained only the searing, unwelcome awareness that somewhere, not far from him, a people were suffering greatly.”
null
Does Levi smoke?
no
What does Choo teach in Haiti?
french
What was missing on the blank wall behind Monty?
the painting
“It’s that right-wing black self-hatred --- I’m sorry if I offend you by saying that, but I mean … isn’t that a part of it? I’m not even talking politics now, I’m talking about a kind of, of, of psychology.”
null
Who became the Hip-Hop Archivist?
Carl
"She [Zora] was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.”
null
“And that’s the first principle of rap music. You gotta pay your dues, man.”
null
Where did the maid that surprised Howard and Victoria come from?
bathroom
null
“Howard clicked around the website left open for him. He found the list of paintings Smith had mentioned and opened The Sampling Officials of the Drapers’ Guild; more popularly known as The Staalmeesters. In this painting, six Dutchmen, all about Howard’s age, sit around a table, dressed in black.”
null
“How many times has Howard looked at these men? The first time he was fourteen, being shown a print of the painting in an art class. He had been alarmed and amazed by the way the Staalmeesters seemed to look directly at him, their eyes (as his schoolmaster put it) ‘following you around the room’, and yet, when Howard tried to stare back at the men, he was unable to meet any of their eyes directly.
cont
Howard looked at the men. The men looked at Howard. On that day, forty-three years ago, he was an uncultured, fiercely bright, dirty-kneed, enraged, beautiful, inspired, bloody-minded schoolboy who came from nowhere and nothing and yet was determined not to stay that way --- that was the Howard Belsey whom the Staalmeesters saw and judged that day. But what was their judgement now? Howard looked at the men. The men looked at Howard. Howard looked at the men. The men looked at Howard.”
Did Howard harbour any romantic feelings for Victoria?
no
Who was the lecturer in the Keller Library that Kiki listened to?
monty kipps
What is the concession that people always beg for?
more time
Is Levi involved with FAIR PAY FOR WELLINGTON’S HAITIAN WORKERS?
Yes
With whom does Zora fight at the party?
carl and victoria
According to Carl who has been screwing Chantelle?
monty kipps
What was stolen from the Black Studies Department?
the painting
According to Zora, with whom has Carl been spending a lot of quality time lately?
Victoria
What did Kiki find under the bed in Levi’s room?
the painting
“Kiki pushed Levi hard in the chest. ‘You stole this from Mr Kipps’s office because some guy told you a lot of bullshit? Because some brother spun you a load of conspiracy bullshit? Are you an idiot?
No! I’m not an idiot --- and it’s not bullshit! You don’t know anything about it!
Of course it’s bullshit --- I happen to know this painting, Levi. It belonged to Mrs Kipps. And she bought it herself, before she was even married.”
Of course it’s bullshit --- I happen to know this painting, Levi. It belonged to Mrs Kipps. And she bought it herself, before she was even married.”
"With that money from that painting you could go build a hospital in Haiti.”
null
“ ‘Levi … I’m trying to understand what you’re telling me,’ said Kiki slowly, making an effort to calm herself. ‘And I … I understand that you had concerns about these people, but, baby, Jerome’s right, this is not the way to go about solving social problems, this is not how you ---’
So how do you do it?’ demanded Levi. ‘By paying people four dollars an hour to clean? That’s how much you pay Monique, man! Four dollars! If she was American you wouldn’t be paying her no four dollars an hour. Would you? Would you?’”
“ ‘Mom … look.’ Jerome pulled the note free. ‘Here, it says To Kiki --- please enjoy this painting. It needs to be loved by someone like you. Your friend, Carlene. … There is such a shelter in each other.’”
null
Howard stood up and took a step towards her. Zora put her arm out to stop him.
Defended,’ said Zora, opening her eyes very wide in amazement, letting the tears course down. ‘Defended and defended and defended you.’
‘Please, Zoor ---’
‘Against Mom! I took your side!’”
‘Please, Zoor ---’
‘Against Mom! I took your side!’”
“Zora now reached the top of the stairs leading down to the basement. Howard begged her for a little more time. There was no more time. Mother and daughter were already calling for each other, one running upstairs and one running down, each with her rich, strange news.”
null
Do Howard and Kiki separate?
yes
. Did Kiki take Murdoch with her?
no
Did the discretionaries stay?
yes
Did Carl stay in Claire’s poetry class?
no
Was Howard on time for his lecture?
no
Was Kiki in the audience for Howard’s lecture?
yes
Did Kiki and Howard ever reconcile?
no
About this deck
By: Ryan Range
Textbook: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)
Man's Search for Meaning
On Beauty
The Trial
Created: 2010-11-29
Size: 145 flashcards
Views: 1458
Textbook:
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics) Man's Search for Meaning On Beauty The TrialCreated: 2010-11-29
Size: 145 flashcards
Views: 1458
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