Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lois BLOOM, '69 University of Massachusetts Amherst
...Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral spark is primary; the intellect and poetry can come later. Without the root intuition, the other qualities would never fully bloom...
...Poshlost speaks in such concepts as 'America is no better than Russia' or 'We all share in Germany's guilt.' The flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays...
Barrington Moore Jr. has long been conscious of this tendency (Bloom cites one of Moore's attacks on modern social science but never develops its relation to Social Origins.) Moore's book is an explicit denial that industrialism, modernization, is governed by one set of "rules." He demonstrates that parliamentary democracy, fascism, Chinese and Russian communism all result from different and largely fortuitous combinations of lords, peasants and bourgeoisie. Democracy is no more an inevitable result of industrialism than totalitarianism. Every society, parliamentary democracy included, involves an exploitation of the lower classes. The book is an injunction to examine...
...objection to the unfortunate division of labor prescribed by the Mosaic editors is that a single review of both books might have indicated the vital connections between them. Graubard might have been encouraged to salvage the useful in Marcuse, and we would have been spared Bloom's diffuse comments on Origins...