Word: apocalypticism
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This new dynamic that Carter sees at work in Georgia is in an odd fashion the outgrowth of that old preoccupation with racial issues. Says Emory University Political Scientist James Clotfelter Jr.: "The walls did not come tumbling down when schools were integrated. The people expected things to be so...
As opposed to that apocalyptic vision, quite a cheerful one can be summoned up by believers in European unity-assuming that the Six do indeed become the Ten, and eventually add others. The Europeanists note that the nations of Western Europe contain 320 million people with a spending power of...
Basically Herndon is in desperate agreement with John Holt, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenburg, Charles Silberman & Co. that U.S. schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic...
Benumbing News. This process energized Warhol's images of disaster-the car crashes, the electric chairs, the mushroom clouds and paintings like Red Race Riot, 1963-with singular force. A distillation had been made of the benumbing repetition of bad news in order to show that one should not...
Obviously this is not hot-and-breathless, burn-baby-burn writing. Unlike apocalyptic novelists, Gaines does not make the revolution happen by surreal rhetoric. He simply watches, a patient artist, a patient man, and it happens for him. When Jane, disobedient at last, walks past her plantation owner to take...