Word: countertrend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we're seeing here is two trends on a collision course. One trend is empowerment, in which companies are revitalizing the core, strengthening relationships with workers. But the countertrend is the move toward contingent work, where there is always a question mark hanging over the relationship as to whether it will continue in the future. You can't do both...
...reassuring aspect of culture is that every stifling trend seems to produce a refreshing, subversive countertrend. At least a few people will grow tired of living like pampered moles and will want to go out to see a play or a concert. "If you spend the day watching your computer, you're not going to watch your television at night," contends Philip Glass, the avant-garde composer. "You'd rather go to the park and watch someone dancing." Live drama, predicts critic and iconoclastic director Robert Brustein, "will become what Jean Genet called 'the theater of the catacombs.' It will...
This ideological and cultural blending strikes some observers as too much of a good thing. Writing in the Atlantic, Rutgers political scientist Benjamin Barber laments what he calls "McWorld." He also identifies the countertrend, the re-emergence of nationalism in its ugliest, most divisive and violent form...
...sure, nobody expects the dissolution to go that far. Last week, indeed, saw the beginning of a countertrend toward formation of some kind of new union, spurred by somber warnings against self-destructive splintering of authority. Mikhail Gorbachev threatened to resign as Soviet President if some sort of union is not preserved, and Sobchak called a complete dissolution of the union "suicidal." Delegations of the giant Russian republic and Ukraine pledged to work out at least military and economic cooperation and invited the other republics to participate. At week's end a Russian delegation got the signatures of the leaders...