Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THE SOVIET Union has gotten a lot of good press lately. It has opened a few satellite facilities to U.S. congressmen, allowed greater freedom of expression in the state-controlled press and is about to sign a landmark arms reduction agreement with the U.S. "Glasnost," or openness, now is a...
THE MODERN state makes order out of all things. Passion gives way to reason, chaos to structure. Play, to the extent there is such a thing, is to be regulated. Disneyland is the supreme expression of this ethic. In that pre-fabricated funland, the funhouse attendant can tell you exactly...
Spontaneous public events are going the way of the past, to be replaced by more official, better planned mass events. As they become the dominant from of public expression it is inevitable that the less rigid old-style from of public meeting will be viewed negatively. How else can one...
Freedom of speech and the press. Some of Bork's most radical rethinking has concerned the First Amendment guarantees of free speech. In his famous 1971 law review article, he argued that the Constitution protected only "political" speech, thereby shutting out "any other form of expression, be it scientific, literary...
For the Democrats, the initial face-offs have been polite enough to satisfy Miss Manners. During a forum at the Iowa County Fair in late August, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee won headlines for his so-called aggressiveness toward Dukakis. In truth, Gore's criticisms were tepid in the extreme...