Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, a cynic might dismiss the whole lot as blueprints for futuristic or retro college dormitory facilities across the nation: the pieces almost all resemble architectural scale models, with the grand, misguided feel of an architect's imagination gone amok Furthermore, the room used to exhibit the pieces seems inexplicably gloomy at times and is somewhat inconve niently catalogued...
...hard to complain about a bipartisan consensus in favor of goodness. Certainly its premises are too grave to dismiss. Rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock birth are indeed appalling, as are the related rates of child abuse and neglect. Songs celebrating rape and murder are not the hallmark of a healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine...
That's the premise behind The End of Science (Addison-Wesley; $24), the controversial new book by John Horgan, a senior writer for Scientific American. While many scientists dismiss his theory as unworthy of discussion, discuss it they have, heatedly challenging Horgan's work and defending their...
...easy to dismiss Gilbert Kaplan as just another rich New Yorker with a hobby he can afford. Kaplan, 55, former publisher of Institutional Investor magazine, is mad for Mahler. Through his private Kaplan Foundation, formed a decade ago, he has immersed himself in the composer's life and music, tracking down every extant photograph of Mahler for a book and issuing a facsimile of Mahler's score of the Symphony No. 2, better known as the "Resurrection" Symphony--which just happens to be the object of Kaplan's special passion...
...gave his most significant performance yet. He led the London Philharmonia Orchestra through his signature piece on the opening night of the prestigious, snooty Salzburg Festival, not far from one of the Alpine lakes where Mahler composed the sprawling, five-movement work a century ago. Predictably, some critics did dismiss the event forthwith. "A multimillionaire's cold flirt," complained one; "no trace of Viennese charm," groused another. Austrians have long been loath to admit that anyone other than themselves can properly perform the Austro-German classics, and few would care to admit to an American's mastery...