Word: postmodern
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Underneath all the makeup, 18th century contract negotiations, and postmodern touches, “The Way of the World” is at its heart a hilarious play, made more so by Birnbaum and her actors. It may require a flowchart to keep up with all the deceptions and plots of the play, but no effort is required to enjoy the unfolding of its many schemes...
...vision of liberal—or “general”—education is purely instrumental and shorn of the presumed monetary potential of technical training. It is vocational instruction for a rising generation of cosmopolitans and multiculturalists who, if educated properly, will never question the postmodern orthodoxy with which Harvard has indoctrinated them...
...avowed vindication of contemplative virtues over pre-professional training, the Task Force, however, fails to recognize its own irony. For in aspiring to produce graduates imbued with a sense of international consciousness and responsibility, the proposed General Education program provides a merely instrumental service, albeit with a peculiarly postmodern flavor...
...wonder if this toddler-aged creation is a modern-day version of Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale about scientific experimentation gone awry may appear to be incompatible with Zuckerberg’s baby, but I’m realizing the real postmodern Prometheus is now a top-ten global website with repercussions far greater than drunken pokes...
...very arty and postmodern, and a movie that absolutely gets better with time. Someday it will be recognized as the classic that it truly...