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...trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor requires that anybody's, let alone everybody's, intimate life be ventilated on the village green. The booming commerce in intimacies is extraordinary...
...years ago, Americans were astonished, shocked and dismayed-as well as fascinated-when public television presented An American Family, an exhibition of the personal trials and griefs of the family of Bill and Pat Loud, including their on-the-air breakup. But the Loud show's tell-all mode clearly proved infectious. Since then, the traffic in intimate secrets has become almost a staple of popular entertainment. Consider...
...office at the top should not even look like an office but resemble a living room, complete with coffee tables, comfortable sofas and original art on the walls. Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures, works behind a big marble table, while Designer Calvin Klein works in the modern mode of couches and comfort. Explains Office Designer Charles Winecoff: "Executives are getting away from the idea of a big, formal desk because most of their business really is conversation." For many businessmen, less can mean more...
...shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity or to the principles of narrative that would emerge in Proust or Joyce. The supremacy of the fixed viewpoint, embodied for 500 years in Renaissance perspective, was challenged by the new mode of describing space that Picasso and Braque had developed in a supreme effort of teamwork...
...judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here and now, as the arena of a violent formative contest. Judged by the higher standard, academic freedom does not flourish at Harvard. Our failure to establish it corrupts our common life...