Word: rationalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naturally, Perlman has his rationalist assumptions upended. Hansen's serio-comic hero is another good poke at the preening self-confidence of science, in this case the budding efforts at the turn of the century to systematize the study of the mind...
...three elections to Parliament, founded a school and led the movement for nuclear disarmament. He was twice jailed and dismissed from three jobs for his pacifism and unconventional views on sex. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 and died two decades later at 97, a humane rationalist to the last...
...adman's adman. He wasn't a hipster like William Bernbach, who tapped into youthcult with the "Think Small" campaign for Volkswagen. He wasn't an elegant rationalist like David Ogilvy, whose ads famously advised the rich that a Rolls-Royce was the sensible car to buy. He didn't even work on Madison Avenue, but in Chicago's Loop instead. But Leo Burnett, the jowly genius of the heartland subconscious, is the man most responsible for the blizzard of visual imagery that assaults us today...
...frankly sexual imagery to Judaism. Angels and demons struggled in Kabbalistic pages, reincarnation was championed, number codes abounded. Sublime spirituality coexisted with "practical Kabbalah," the use of magic charms or amulets. Such aspects were profoundly embarrassing to the 19th century founders of Reform Judaism. Reform together with the similarly rationalist Conservative movement and modern Orthodoxy came to dominate American Judaism. After the Holocaust wiped out many of its key teachers, Jewish mysticism seemed destined to languish as a superstitious whisper...
Does Harvard's rationalist ethos make everyone spiritually insensitive, or is there nothing here? Is there no one who can transcend Harvard's Luddite-like insistence on living in the pre-"X-Files" age? How can an entire community refuse to acknowledge what the rest of the country knows: that ghosts, like almond-eyed aliens with impossibly long fingers and secret government agencies that deal solely with them, do exist...