Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest part of his book is devoted to explicating the theories of sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists. The general outlines of the rise and fall of anthropological evolutionary theories of the family and the empirical sociology of urbanization are clear, well-written and illustrated with historical examples. But the chapter on the development of personality theory and the psychoanalytic controversies of the '30s and '40s is far less transparent to the uninitiated. Occasionally, Lasch loses the thread of his argument as set out in the early chapters; at times he fails to preserve the connection between intellectual history and social history...
...dramatized neatly on Broadway when an effort to revive Hair fizzled dismally with critics and public alike, while Man of La Mancha, with all its improbable visions, came back successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter Two). Movie fans are in tune too: having rejoiced not long ago over a fable of apocalypse like Dr. Strangelove and a parable of triumphant evil like Easy Rider, they are today cheering over a heart-grabbing fable like Rocky and a simple-minded parable of triumphant good like Star...
...gods migrate, or are transported, to a civilization where everything is to some extent a commodity, they become commodities too." The danger here lies in the potential reduction of these new faiths to products of a "profit-oriented culture" such as the psychological theories Cox discusses in the chapter entitled "The Pool of Narcissus: The Psychologizing of Meditation." Discussing the use of terms such as "investment" in people or psychic "dividends" he proceeds to suggest that...
...another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation agreement...
...there are many others. In 1973 she attended the World's Professional Ballroom Dancing Championships and discovered Richard and Janet Gleave, a British couple who won the Modern competition. Her admiring chapter on the drag ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused...