Word: communal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which this incident is a manifestation, and moves to the alternate side of the encounter to find its manifestation there. In "Two Bodies" the "gay male cultural project" is that of "resurrecting the flesh" in a culture that closets, isolates and armors male flesh rather than expose it for communal display, and Barthes participates in this project when "without at all failing to insist on the body's material lovability, [he] is moved to conceive this body in its most embarrassed state...
...anger, he might want to talk to his own Labor Secretary, Robert Reich. In his book The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Reich describes how America's new professional elite has grown ever more distant from the rest of society and disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead...
...attacks on Vance by Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Berger's instinct, like Clinton's, is to build a consensus rather than obliterate opponents, "to get the job done with the least amount of damage," as a friend puts it. Lake calls this trait "a taste for communal enterprise." During the campaign, that attention to bridge building brought many lapsed Democratic foreign policy heavies like Jeane Kirkpatrick and Paul Nitze back into the fold and helped accomplish the goal, as Berger put it, of "keeping foreign policy off the front pages," so Clinton could hammer away on domestic...
...fashioning a hybrid of theology and law also seemed to be a canny professional move. I had cut loose any religious moorings during adolescence, succumbing only occasionally to bouts of Proustian introspections and Zen austerity. I had neither subscribed to the common Harvard utopian fantasies which too often involve communal dining on trestle tables in drafty halls nor seriously considered a life of contemplation...
...historical arcana: richly researched evocations of the "desert Englishmen" of the '30s, lilting allusions to Herodotus and Kipling, catalogs of the winds that blow across the sands. The result is a realism that could not be more magical: "I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds...