Word: abstractionism
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Shklar, recent recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, could well have spun dross from a theoretical tower or availed herself of that luxury--abstraction--which so often makes political theory no difficult. Instead, and without making it sound like a how to for political pet owners, the book is "for...
Intellectually the Democrats' case is eminently arguable. But politically it is hard to sell. Voters may not believe that a party whose convention resounded with exhortations about the sanctity of Social Security and Medicare is serious about cutting spending. Mondale's promise to raise taxes certainly was courageous...
Waiting is a kind of suspended animation. Time solidifies: a dead weight. The mind reddens a little with anger and then blanks off into a sort of abstraction and fitfully wanders, but presently it comes up red and writhing again, straining to get loose. Waiting casts one's life...
Williamson immediately discards the notion that the self is not a valid subject for poetry. Perhaps too immediately, because that argument has often been used as a basis for pot-shots at poets of all types. But Williamson sees no need to go on the defensive, and the assumption that...
But Golding has never been content to leave literal enough alone. Wilfred Barclay cannot just be a talented writer and an unusually repugnant person; he must be made to stand in some inchoate manner for mankind, that abstraction imprisoned on "the crazy ball flying through space which if you care...