This dual presence — transparent yet indispensable — discomfits the national imagination.
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It's that familiarity, as much as their romantic spark, that discomfits Rachel.
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Whatever it meant in the past, and however it discomfits the present, the Aeneid has, alas, always anticipated the future. ♦
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump's Call on Abortions Rattles G.O.P." (front page, March 31): Donald Trump discomfits his party by speaking without filters.
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With a white mother, he didn't carry the baggage of enslavement that discomfits those white Americans looking for an easy way out of the race conversation.
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Congress's generosity is unlikely to enlarge the cramped vision of the people who run the agencies most responsible for the environment — the E.P.A. and the Interior and Energy Departments — and whose driving impulse has been to roll back any Obama-era initiative that discomfits the coal, oil and gas industries.
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In the 1990 film The Russia House, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, Russell made one of his first significant acting appearances, portraying Walter, an ambiguously gay British intelligence officer who discomfits his more strait-laced CIA counterparts. Russell thenceforth occasionally acted. He directed a segment of Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) and for TV did The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1991). In 1991, Russell directed Whore.
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As the clocks ring and the workers wake up, Violet, Doralee, and Judy prepare for work ("9 to 5"). The workers begin another mundane and hellish day at work under Franklin Hart, Jr., president of Consolidated Industries. Judy and Violet meet for the first time and Judy reveals she does not have any work experience, but Violet states she will be proud to train her and gives her a few tips and pointers for surviving office life ("Around Here"). Franklin Hart, Jr., is a domineering and equally lecherous man, who lusts after his secretary, Doralee, and has no shame in making those feelings known, which discomfits Doralee ("Here for You").
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While the majority of the poems are intensely personal (for which she expresses unease: "It discomfits me /that I should be the central / matter of my poems when savage and / brutal deeds hurl themselves /as headlines around the world"), Oden also engages with other poets such as Ciardi, Tennyson and T. S. Eliot while exploring a number of philosophical questions raised in the writings of Plato, Santayana, Spinoza, and Martha Nussbaum. In these poems, she considers the relationship between reason and emotion, and the connection of the body to the mind, often siding with feeling and imagination while stilling insisting that action ultimately rules over the page.Oden (2004) Even within her focus on the personal, like in the earlier collections, in Appearances, Oden investigates a wider range of topics from family, love, aging, happiness, and sexual passion. As the title would suggest, there is also a newfound openness in these verses, a shedding of past experiences.
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