Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-market scramble is going on all over academe, with star scholars' heads being handsomely hunted in the finite universe of top teaching and research talent. In the past year raiders have bagged ten professors from Cornell, impelling that university to bare its own teeth. "We're coming after their people, they're coming after our people," says Larry Palmer, Cornell's vice president for academic programs. "Everyone is jockeying...
Logical, rather than creative, capacities are emphasized in court, and not without reason. The power to create a reality, to imagine an allegory which lays bare the essence of a case, is as unfair as it is liberating, allowing the tangible reality to give way to the perceived reality of a mind such as Bell's. Should justice be meted out based on his--or even a people's--collective imagination? Can real cases be seen most accurately as allegories of imagined realities...
Bell invokes the metaphor of disease throughout And We Are Not Saved to describe negative aspects of Black behavior. Thus the crime rate among Blacks can be cured like an illness. Again and again, cures for Black pathologies are discovered, then destroyed. But Bell is doing more than laying bare the hypocrisy of whites who blame the victims. By harping on the analogy of disease as an absurd explanation for Black behavior, he makes the unstated point that it is whites who are stricken with a disease: racism. Ultimately, it is they who must be cured. And, Bell seems...
...apartment fits Americans' conception of a Soviet dwelling, with bare walls, simple furnishings, a dark, out-of-the-way location--and of course a reknowned spokesmen for Soviet Jewry...
...stripe paintings, done when he was in his 20s and just out of Princeton. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started out polemical and bare, but has complicated his art to the point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find El Dorado, opens with a group of eccentrically geometrical wall reliefs done in 1971-73. They were inspired by photos...