Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Southern black people are going to become more and more political on a local level. You're going to see more and more black people running for public office. In Northern communities the black population is going to be farther away from any accommodation with the white community. I...
In other words, had there been no blacks, certain creative tensions arising from the cross-purposes of whites and blacks would also not have existed. Not only would there have been no Faulkner; there would have been no Stephen Crane, who found certain basic themes of his writing in the...
Firecrackers Banging. The same improvisational quality pervades the movie; breast-twisting rapes occur whenever the plot flags; sloe-eyed, heavy-breathing women chuff across the screen like freight trains; Dax goes through his life phases (from peasant to gigolo to millionaire) with a single expression -that of a man with...
At least, that is how its hosts feel about it. "Subarashii [terrific]!" said Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, after a pre-opening tour. "This is not a statement of the 20th century but one of the 21st -a good expression of our national power."
The answer is not as pat as it might seem. Though most Americans still accept efficiency as virtuous, there is a growing counter-cult that views efficiency as a dehumanizing, soul-devouring force. The cult began long ago, with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. In their nightmare Utopias, Brave New...