Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, up to a point. To suppose the work is only a satire on an obsolete propagandist style is to miss its deadlier thrust. What K & M are getting at is not just totalitarian art, but official art as such. Stalin and the Muses-showing Clio, muse of history, presenting...
Amending the U.S. Constitution usually takes years. It is rarely done. As Chief Justice John Marshall said, the Constitution should be "a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means." When one is working in marble, it is not wise to doodle, or use the chisel impulsively. But precisely because the...
All his long, exemplary life, Mumford has resisted such tendencies, writing with equal facility about art, technology, politics, social theory. Throughout, the old observer has remained a child of the city, disappointed that grownups have made such a mess of his world, but intoxicated with life and its possibilities. He...
There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance...
But Schell goes much further than simply endorsing a nuclear freeze or urging a return to serious arms control. He regards such remedies as little more than aspirins administered to a patient with a life-threatening illness. In his view, the very existence of nuclear weapons carries with it the...