These readers, however, are distinct from the lazy and incurious
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Too much yearning for the past makes us incurious about the world.
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For Joyce, the problem is that people are sleepy, numb, and incurious.
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In Juliet's telling, Philippa's parents were the most intolerant, incurious breed of snobs.
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We have had incurious presidents before, and they also displayed tremendous self-certainty.
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Mr Trump is incurious and profoundly narcissistic, which means he is also thin-skinned.
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Bush was legendarily incurious about the nuts and bolts of how his administration ran.
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Fear is incurious and uniform; the world opening up to me was colorful and complex.
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Whoever clings to the propaganda of Otherwise must be judged incurious or complicit or both.
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He's nice and boring, and I was incurious about him because he was so thinly written.
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Trump is a deeply incurious man when it comes to subjects that don't personally involve him.
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But a brand-new war run by this corrupt, incurious president, that is the ultimate fear.
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President-elect Donald Trump is demonstrably unlettered, incurious, callous and dangerously lacking in knowledge and comprehension.
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Many of us dismissed him as too inexperienced, too vulgar, and too incurious to be taken seriously.
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Now, you might wonder how someone that careless and incurious was such a huge success in business.
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For a man who seems incurious about everything, that really stuck in his head, that French parade.
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Chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose, and obsessed with gaudy real estate, Donald Trump is of a Neronic temperament.
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Still, the author describes Mr. Trump bluntly as unlearned, intellectually incurious and sometimes consumed with frustration about leaks.
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But it is Mr Trump who remains consistently and inexplicably incurious about Russia, and whether it attacked American democracy.
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We worry it is only a matter of time before even the most incurious Muggles catch wind of it.
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Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear," which began circulating on Tuesday, portrays Trump as ill-informed, incurious, impetuous, and mendacious.
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His boss, Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek), is a bit more like Henry Fonda: arrogant, incurious, convinced of his own superiority.
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"He is incurious, he does not know and does not care what happens to others," Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg writes.
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He is, however, lazy, utterly incurious and too insecure to listen to advice or ever admit to a mistake.
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He was incurious—an accusation that Charlotte had levelled at him repeatedly, though what hadn't she accused him of?
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The near-consensus among foreign-policy types is that Mr Trump is a thin-skinned, unpredictable and alarmingly incurious neophyte.
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This tells you that, at best, the Trump inner circle is remarkably incurious about some of the company it keeps.
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As they do this, these leaders are modeling precisely the kind of incurious behavior they're trying to change in others.
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Wolff's book depicts a deeply unprepared, incurious president surrounded by toadying advisers concerned about his ability to do the job.
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I believe that Trump is ignorant, incurious, vain, gauche, bigoted, intemperate, bullying, suggestible, reckless and morally unfit for his office.
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But at the risk of sounding incurious or unscientific, there are some questions that I'm not sure I want answered.
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But for an intellectual historian, Lilla seems remarkably incurious about what all of this actually means to the people involved.
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He's so incurious and so ignorant about foreign affairs that he didn't know that China is not a member of TPP.
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There is something tiresome and incurious about the film's romanticism, which rests on the canard that girls aren't really into music.
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These media workers will be ambitious, ideological, incurious, self-promoting, social media native, willing to force the story, and very, very vulnerable.
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Why are the media so incurious about the FBI&aposs investigation of Hillary Clinton and Comey&aposs decision not to indict her?
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Many consider him vulgar, narcissistic, and self-serving, a pathological liar who seems unprepared for, even incurious about, the office he's holding.
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OLIVER: It's an odd thing: For a man who seems incurious about everything, that really stuck in his head, that French parade.
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This is a 70-year-old man who has lived his entire life as the vile, dishonest, incurious creature who got elected.
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Donald Trump, of course, is much, much worse — an incurious, self-absorbed man-child surrounded by calculating zealots of all the nastiest stripes.
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He is as ignorant and incurious as a president as he was as a candidate (and as a would-be mogul before that).
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And it's not just that he's incurious and inflexible: selling snake oil is his business model, and he can't change without losing everything.
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His character, Paul, is a kind and incurious occupational therapist who lives with his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) in his Omaha, Nebraska, childhood home.
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He is deeply incurious and proudly so, refusing to sit for traditional presidential briefs or to read anything that doesn't mention him by name.
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For a play set now, in New York City, the Betties are curiously incurious, as if Ms. magazine and "Our Bodies, Ourselves" never happened.
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Both stories are told from the point of view of the male narrators, and the solipsistic, incurious treatment of the female characters is remarkable.
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What Douthat's left-Trump is instead is a manifestation of conservatives' critique of Trump: He's an unprincipled hustler who's incompetent, unknowledgeable, incurious, and unqualified.
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It strikes me as little more than a deskilled knock-off of the van Gogh and, like the frogs and the portrait, incurious and flat-footed.
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Even the most incurious tourist who visits, say, Bulgaria and Finland will have noticed that the countries don't just have different languages, they have different alphabets.
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On policy he is incurious yet also more politically savvy than the party's congressional leaders, more attuned to where his own voters and the country stands.
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Both believe they are fighting for a better politics, a kinder America and, in Dr Stein's case, though not the globally incurious Mr Johnson's, a safer world.
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Thiel, a billionaire tech investor who co-founded Paypal, cast his eyes around at his peers and branded them "incurious" to the issues beyond their own bubble.
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He can also sound strikingly incurious about the many ways America is changing—which in turn makes his status-quo-ante solutions appear complacent and out-of-touch.
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Given that two of his characters are anthropology students who ask the commune's elders about their myths and traditions, they seem oddly incurious about the more brutal practices.
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She takes such care not to be noticed, we learn, that she ultimately married a man whose main attraction lies in being as handsome as he is incurious.
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Wolff's tales of disorganization, internecine warfare, and egomaniacal incompetence melt Trump's self-declared, steely image as a drain-the-swamp populist into a puddle of undisciplined, incurious, narcissism.
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Eishar Kaur, a member of Britain's Punjabi diaspora, explains how her treasured cultural heritage has been reductively dismissed as patriarchal oppression by an incurious, white-dominated feminist movement.
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The people who benefit from trigger warnings aren't weak, delicate, overly sensitive, immature or intellectually incurious; they're people who survived serious trauma, and are dealing with the fallout.
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He denounces the modern university for churning out students "incurious about the world outside their heads," yet fails, in the end, to get much outside of his own.
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In Everett's defense, the Pirahã genuinely seem to be an unusually incurious people, with no narratives, origin stories, benevolent gods, music, dance, or interest in learning other groups' languages.
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They were doting but incurious parents, bewildered by her fame, and confounded by the fans, who kept turning up at their door or writing to them during Blondie's heyday.
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If he is incurious about the economy's weaknesses, the left-wingers seem unable to account for its current strength—illustrated by rows of gleaming trucks outside Mr Biden's events.
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Refreshing though it is to encounter a literary model of genuine female mentorship and encouragement, her tale of a millennial woman's feminist awakening comes to seem blinkered and strangely incurious.
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What endures, sadly, is Roth's lack of imagination, the unempathetic and incurious caricaturing of others that he turned into a virtue — and which now defines much of American public life.
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His tweets, including the recent hit-and-miss attack on the mayor of London, show him to be an otherwise meanspirited, incurious and accuracy-challenged chip off the old block.
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When the generally incurious Daphne figures that out, she tries to get the yearbook back and, in the process, discovers more about her pretty, vain mother than she wants to.
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First, Mr. Polunin seems to be entirely incurious about finding choreographers of talent, choosing unknowns who cater to his need to show misunderstood outsider characters and flashy bits of choreography.
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Back then, in the 80s and 90s, mainstream food criticism was apolitical and incurious; composed specifically for a tragically uncool demographic of moneyed debauchees who'd scarcely adventure beyond the white tablecloth.
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At least, that's how it seemed to me as an incurious middle school student many years ago, pecking away in computer class on a TRS-80 and struggling to learn BASIC.
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"He added that this was symptomatic of attitudes in Silicon Valley, which he said was marked by an "extreme strain of parochialism" that made it "incurious" about "problems of other places.
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I would have loved to have been in the strategy session when the House Republicans decided to be incurious about Trump's sins and crimes but to rip the skin off Cohen.
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But it's abetted by Western journalism that, with some honorable exceptions, for too long has been depressingly incurious about any form of Palestinian suffering for which Israel cannot be held responsible.
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Schiff plans to use his subpoena power to more intensely probe Trump's ties to Russia, since Democrats think their GOP predecessors' investigation of the subject was incurious, and concluded far too quickly.
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There's no point pretending that an incurious septuagenarian narcissist will be learning any lessons about black history, black tears, or black anything, and so the list cannot involve issues of sensitivity or wokeness.
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So a Democratic House would supply a much more effective check on that temptation, along with more vigorous scrutiny of corruption in the White House, about which congressional Republicans have been studiously incurious.
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A New York Times op-ed penned by a "senior official" and excerpts from a new book by Bob Woodward portray Trump as erratic, impulsive and dangerously incurious on matters of national security.
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So the typical Trump nominee, in everything from economics to diplomacy to national security, is ethically challenged, ignorant about the area of policy he or she is supposed to manage and deeply incurious.
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For 50 years he was at war, or in a state of uneasy truce, with the musical establishment, fighting to make the deaf, incurious or plain uncultured appreciate the works of their own time.
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"The Silicon Valley attitude sometimes called 'cosmopolitanism' is probably better understood as an extreme strain of parochialism, that of fortunate enclaves isolated from the problems of other places — and incurious about them," he wrote.
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All of this makes Trump essentially the perfect mark: a man who's easily flattered, short-tempered, quick to blame others, intellectually incurious, brimming with self-assurance, and unwilling to reflect on his own misjudgments.
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Donald Trump is an incurious, ignorant, mean-spirited, impulsive person, whose blithe, ugly embrace of sexist and racist rhetoric has established a new, adventurous attitude among those who share his troglodytic views on human groups.
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By the time I got to the section on Harper Lee, I wanted to know more about her than I've ever thought I wanted to know — and I didn't start the book incurious about her.
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A clear consensus view has emerged over months of reporting, interviews and simple reading of the President's own tweets: that the man is uncommonly petty, incurious and impulsive, with little to no fidelity to facts.
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The show has been very cavalier about rules of succession so far, and Jaime has seemed very incurious about how his sister ended up justifying her succession to a boy who was nominally Robert Baratheon's son.
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Another worthwhile data point: Sanders's record on domestic issues does not suggest to me that he is inherently stupid or incurious in ways that would make it impossible for him to learn about foreign policy as well.
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Perhaps not, but we can certainly see that his behavior reflects someone who is narcissistic, lacking in empathy, corrupt, incurious, inept, lacking in knowledge, focused on reality-show norms and unwilling to think of country over self.
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Nothing like a bare minimum of knowledge to make a person ultimately incurious about the true state of things, which is this: Grasping algorithms just enough, thinking they're within our puny reach, only makes them more powerful.
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As the leader of an investigation involving the campaign of a man he cheered vocally and served directly as a transition team official, the congressman has often appeared almost incurious about the chief subject of the inquiry.
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Marianne Williamson, who has no experience in elected office, seems remarkably incurious about the ins and outs of constructing actual political policies and frankly shouldn't be on the debate stage, is not the right person to answer this question.
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They are anti–Molly Ringwalds, who was always so desperate to belong in '20143s mainstays like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, curiously incurious about her own sexuality, and often overshadowed by zanier (and sometimes creepy or racist) side characters.
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The most infuriating character in Confirmation is Joe Biden, not because he's hostile to Hill (he isn't), but because the figure of male power he represents—benign, feckless, incurious—is one that's still so familiar to women, especially within liberal circles.
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It seems almost surreal that we're about to swear in the most unqualified person to ever hold the office — misogynistic, bullying, bigoted, narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, and wildly incurious — and that this opportunity to make history has slipped so painfully through our fingers.
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"Even if you take all of his ill-defined political beliefs out of the picture, he's still an ignorant, intemperate, foolish, gullible, intellectually incurious, pathologically dishonest conspiracy theorist who is utterly unqualified for the job of running a country," Collins told Gizmodo.
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It was a mixed blessing that Grisha's nostalgia—rather, his extreme alternation, or juxtaposition, of warm sentiment and violent incident—was most appreciated in America, which perhaps also appreciated how much he relished denigrating America, calling it stupid, crass, incurious, and puritanical.
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"By not admitting what his views on this, the White House is just hiding the fact that Trump is too incurious to actually look seriously at the issue," said Andrew Light, a former Obama State Department official who helped negotiate the Paris pact.
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In sum, we cannot be the keepers of what you might call liberal civilization — I'm using the word liberal in its broad, philosophical sense, not the narrowly American ideological one — if our readers have illiberal instincts, incurious minds, short attention spans and even shorter fuses.
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Much of recent left-wing campus activism has to be understood in this depressing context — as a response to a pre-existing crisis, an attempt to infuse morality and purpose into institutions that employ many brilliant minds but mostly promote incurious ambition and secular conformity.
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The titular evening occurs when the brothers' competitor, an incurious lout named Pascal who operates a significantly more successful low-brow Italian joint down the block, throws Secondo a lifeline by inviting his pal, the crooner Louis Prima, to come by for a meal at the restaurant.
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Bush is no longer the incurious man who launched an unnecessary war that killed hundreds of thousands in Iraq; today, he's the goofy old fella who paints portraits of the troops, pals around with Michelle Obama and seems to be in on the joke of our times.
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Those same Brexiteers are startlingly incurious about what foreigners think and feel, and disdainfully sure that they either love Britain enough to do as requested (cf the cheques written on America's account) or will submit to bullying by big boys (cf those predictions that BMW will tell Europeans what to do).
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LONDON — As Brexit and its attendant chaos hurtle toward us, one of the most darkly humorous features of contemporary British politics (a competitive field) is the ubiquity of parliamentarians, pundits and business titans who wail and gnash at our ceaseless political tumult but appear utterly incurious about the conditions that produced it.
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He won the Republican primary because he is a bad politician, he is losing today because he is a bad politician, and part of what makes him a bad politician is only doing the kinds of things his supporters love, which can appear to be good politics to incurious journalists, but is actually not.
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The novel, which instantly secured Hollinghurst's reputation, not only brought into the light "things best covered by darkness," as its promiscuous young narrator, William Beckwith, says; it did so with a stylistic prowess and attentive rigor that made previous writers of sexually explicit fiction, gay and straight alike, look squeamish and incurious by comparison.
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As someone who has spent years studying Mr. Putin — and as one of a handful of journalists who have had an unscripted conversation with him — I can vouch for the fact that he is a poorly educated, under-informed, incurious man whose ambition is vastly out of proportion to his understanding of the world.
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Despite the flashiness of Fischl's diptych as a whole and the undeniable beauty of its portrayal, in the right-hand panel, of black refugees emerging from a black sea under a lowering sky, the blatancy of the political message and the retro quality of the neo-Manet brushwork render it the most incurious work in the show.
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If entrance to the Ivy League would seem at first glance to promise an equally elevated playing field to those lucky enough to gain admittance, for those from humble origins, even solidly bourgeois ones, it can also serve as a harsh reminder of how much the game is already rigged — and, by association, how ironically provincial and incurious the rich often are.
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There is a fine line between a piece of art that acknowledges it is about the worldview of a very specific person — in the case of "Little Women," that of a white girl in Massachusetts, raised in an abolitionist family during the Civil War — and a piece of art that declares that this worldview is the only one that matters and is fatally incurious about all others.
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And though the two end up bonding over their discomfort with some of the responsibilities of public life, any kind of truce is shattered when it gets back to Elizabeth that Jackie has been trash talking her around town, calling her "a middle-aged woman so incurious, unintelligent, and unremarkable that Britain's new reduced place in the world was not a surprise but an inevitability," and publicly snubbing the palace furniture. Ouch.
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