Word: establishmentism
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"Epileptic" mostly takes place during the late 60s and into the 70s, a time before MRIs and a greater awareness of brain disease. Faced with a medical establishment that could do little but shrug its shoulders, the Beauchard family explores every remote cure, from macrobiotics to mediums to exorcism. "I...
The Harvard Coop began carrying copies of Grace soon after Hindley’s novel turned up on street corners and Cambridge landmarks. Hindley reasons that the establishment “realized it was important to carry it.”
In the U.S., insurgencies of a different and metaphorical kind flourished as well. This was a year in which establishments of all kinds were thoroughly rattled yet stayed precariously intact. Remember Howard Dean? This time last year, he was riding a crest of youthful, bloggy discontent, determined to change the...
It’s hard to decide what something means if you don’t even know how to frame a discussion of its potential meaning, and I think there were moments when many audience members (myself included) were tempted to dismiss the whole event as meaningless. What ultimately...
And while Shaalan's suggestion that the IUA is an "Iranian list" smacks of partisan mudslinging - the SCIRI and Dawa, after all, participate at cabinet level in Allawi's government, and served in the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council before that - both groups are certainly closer to Tehran, where they...