Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confront Goodman with a childish conundrum, what would society be like if a great many people suddenly behaved as he does--denying social order in the quest for absolute personal freedom? There is only one answer to this query. We would soon find ourselves living in a community of hardened, broken, narcissistic individuals. This cannot be the Utopia he envisions...
Munich Was Hell. Here the novel begins to reveal its announced design. This may be reduced to a quasi-theological conundrum. In the absence of God, the English, victorious but emotionally drained, did not think it was necessary to invent a new one; the defeated Germans, humiliated and unreconciled to humiliation, invented, or reinvented, something sinister-the old tribal warrior-deities...
Philosophical Conundrum. For those who came in late, it should be explained that The Music of Time is narrated by Nick Jenkins, who, like Powell, is of Welsh origin, with family connections with Army and "County," went to Eton and Oxford, and is currently engaged in literary criticism. Previous installments have taken Nick through school and university, and have looked fixedly at English high life and business. The current episode concerns that curious interbellum miscegenation between Society and the Arts dealt with so brilliantly in the satiric masterpiece of Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God. Its period is that Slough...