Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is difficult to convince some men that women wear making and dress attractively for a host of reasons, only one of which may be to appeal specifically to them. Self-expression, along with the desire to be generally presentable behind female preening.
Perhaps if Julian Lowenfeld as Serge could express overpowering impatience, anguish, and self-doubt (the three emotions the playwright relies on), we might take the shaky underpinnings of the play on faith. But though Lowenfeld is intermittently believable, he has an unfortunate habit of substituting decibels for modulations in expression...
The new Harvard professor will be Thomas M. Scanlon, an ethics specialist who has written on such topics as philosophy of law, freedom of expression, rights, and notions of individual morality.
There is also the matter of Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's fictional alter id and hero of a comic trilogy that has forever flattened the myth of the glamorous writing life. Zuckerman, of course, is not Roth but rather the fullest and most personal expression of a theme that has...
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...