Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hodge has not read Purdy carefully enough to express himself coherently on the topic, but one senses that Hodge's criticism is built upon umbrage at the fact that For Common Things, at its heart, is not about intellectual arguments but rather about Jedediah Purdy's passionate hopes. The instance of an idealist is offensive and risible to the ironic mind that can not stand to see ideals expressed or fulfilled: "our being human," writes Purdy, "has become a strong argument against cleaving to demanding values, or respecting them in others." One can sense in Hodge the resentfulness born...
...strikingly mature and knowledgeable, extraordinarily well crafted, and in the end profoundly meaningful. This does not mean the book is flawless. It simply means that in the sum of things Jedediah Purdy has written a book that, in its example of a person who is unafraid to express out loud his delicate loves, richly deserves fulfillment of its modest request: "I cannot help believing that we need a way of thinking, and doing, that has in it more promise of goodness than the one we are now following. I want to speak a word for that belief, in the hope...
...abstract level, our goals are to educate the people about funk music, to allow them to express their inner groove, feel the funk that permeates the universe and unleash their inner booty shaker," says Grandmaster of Funk Eric R. Rosenbaum...
...urban (and suburban) graffiti is a mixture of tags (a writer's intricate and distinctive signature), throw-ups (a large design, usually of letters, done quickly to attract attention) and pieces (short for masterpieces, they resemble murals; an assorted collection of images and words). What these categories don't express is the potential difference between a 13-year-old scrawling his tag on bus stop benches and a graffiti writer who labors over his masterpiece on a legal wall...
...threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses? aggressive stance has been upheld consistently by the country?s highest courts, some companies, like American Express, have taken their appeals to the European Commission. If the E.C. doesn't grant German consumers a little taste of a free market, watch for price-conscious Germans to find their economic freedom in the relatively unregulated world of e-commerce, where promotions abound and consumers call the shots...