Word: epochally
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...little boy Donny, the author spent his childhood summers in the Ozarks, and to him the men of Stay More are still gods. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or-evil day -the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch. Like the late James Agee, he reveres the most ordinary aspects" of the lives of unexceptional people, and with lyrical comedy and irony, he makes his joy infectious...
...politics pursued by certain student radicals. They are betting on the apocalypse, the total conflagration that would swallow up even rational radicals like Walzer. He innocently thinks it a service to point out to militants the sensible limits of action. His coffeehouse radicalism can barely accommodate the drug-rock epoch of student politics. The student left embraces more than a mind-blown psychedelia-but the offspring of Lenin, the puritanical disciples of collective repression who infatuate Walzer, are fast disappearing. The prospect of an irrational left has chilling consequences for a theorist of responsible dissent...
From the Vietnamese we will have to learn. I will conclude with the women's liberation program from the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Fourier once explained that the change in a historical epoch can always be determined by the progress of women towards freedom and that the emancipation of women is the natural measure of general emancipation. Comparing the position of women in America and in Vietnam shows how much we must learn from the Vietnamese...
From the Vietnamese we will have to learn. I will conclude with the women's liberation program from the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Fourier once explained that the change in a historical epoch can always be determined by the progress of women towards freedom and that the emancipation of women is the natural measure of general emancipation. Comparing the position of women in America and in Vietnam shows how much we must learn from the Vietnamese...
...been struck by a gust of Bucky Fuller's technocratic sales pitches, the cheerful implications are clear: yet another extension of the telescope is contained within our society. Things like space programs are not the limits of technocracy: they herald the as yet undiscernible beginnings of some fresh epoch...