Word: antisepticized
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Although those Harvard administrators and alumni who led the Revolution of '38 may not admit it today, their reformist undertakings, left over from one of William Jennings Bryan's platforms, lay down a fertile field for disguised power plays and seemingly innocent maneuvering. For rather than fostering antiseptic government, the...
Fraternity life provides psychological benefits as well. Louis Menyhert, president of Psi Upsilon at New York University, points out that "N.Y.U. these days is an antiseptic place where people come for classes and go home." At a small, closely-knit fraternity house, he believes, there is a better opportunity to...
BADLANDS. The affectless, antiseptic world of two young killers delineated with hard skill by Director-Writer Terrence Malick. A chilly, forbidding work that catches currents of casual violence which seem typically American.
Work can kill you. Workers have always known it. And from Charles Dickens to Upton Sinclair, gifted writers have assailed the inhumanity of employers who disregard the disease-dealing, injury-inflicting conditions under which their employees labor. Since the 1930s, though, with the rise of powerful unions and the spread...
Nonetheless, Death Wish is dangerous, because it exploits what might even be considered a legitimate fear of assault while conveniently perpetrating an unintelligent fallacy. And this fallacy is uglier than the stupid assumptions that the city is a hellish place or that killing muggers cuts the assault rate. This is...