Word: intersectionals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Transit charts six major characters as they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
Politics and culture intersect somewhere in all societies, but in 19th century Vienna they positively embraced. That alone made the city unusual. The middle-class liberals who gained parliamentary control in the 1860s were ingenuously industrious and earnest...