Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the arts confront the sensitive citizen with the difference between good artists, mediocre ones and absolute duffers, and since there are always more of the last two than the first, the arts too must be politicized; so we cobble up critical systems to show that although we know what we mean by the quality of the environment, the idea of quality in aesthetic experience is little more than a paternalist fiction designed to make life hard for black, female and gay artists...
...believed that what I did was for the greater sake of American education," she said, "[by forcing people] to grapple with ideas they don't like to confront...
...bombing of Nagasaki. But the milieu director Akira Kurosawa creates for their deliberations is small and serene: a farm where a grandmother, who witnessed the blast from afar and lost her husband in it, gently and indirectly informs her grandchildren about the past. And about the proper way to confront it -- with calm, unblinking acceptance. This is a part of their education their parents have neglected. For the middle generation, seeking economic advantage, especially with a branch of the family that has immigrated to the U.S. and prospered, has preferred to deny history's impact on their lives...
Maintaining this delicate balance of the historical and the lyrical throughout, Aridjis manages both to reconstruct a world and to keep it alight with poetic insight. Fully in command of the irony that drives this novel, Aridjis steers 1492 clear of the countless obstacles that confront a fictional history of this magnitude. This other history of 1492 is one of the most compelling to appear...
...truly believed -- and still do -- that it would be positive for the Globe to be forced to confront the issue of an alleged double standard...