Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The root problem is not that strategies to meet such needs are not sought or devised, but that the intellectual tools and personal attitudes offered for the task are insufficient. For most of the past century, Western intellectuals--and this includes most Marxists--have been mired in hyper-skepticism. They...
Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for...
To Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology at Princeton, conservation can only succeed if Americans realize that the energy crisis is not "put on, contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans...
It is the place of the rich, yes, who are so different from you and me; of those who can afford to believe that life is to be comfortable and that the point if not the promise of life is happiness. But the place is somehow too brazen in its...
The Barking Deer isn't a good novel. The completeness of the catastrophe seems a little contrived, and so does a lot of the rest of the plot. The whole book is fairly badly written, with uniformly short, monotonous sentences that often lack verbs. Sometimes this seems to be an...