Word: fermenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clark Clifford remembers the happy days of Truman's White House. He began the study for the unification of the armed services and worked closely on the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. There was ferment and achievement...
...government last week sought to link Caramanlis with the attempted coup. Close associates of the respected ex-Premier insisted that he had nothing to do with it, but Caramanlis is known to have strong support in the military. His appeal fell on fertile ground. "There is a lot of ferment in all branches of the services," said Captain Pappas last week. "There are many committees that have been formed, all talking about ousting this regime...
...there is also a difference between today's resurgent cosmological sense and the confident breadth of the romantic vision. At the heart of the ferment of the '70s is a deep, even humble perception that man and his universe are more complex than he recently thought. Thus experts are under fire (some, self-critically, have even abjured their own expertise) because their solutions have proved less certain than advertised, or because they have seemed to sacrifice the whole man to one of his parts. Optimism had bred a false enthusiasm that this method or that system was somehow...
...artists as Milan's Director Giorgio Strehler, Conductor Claudio Abbado and Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, he is bored by the country's literature. "There are not many good Italian novels, probably because the Italian language has become over-rhetorical." Like Steiner, Kaiser is impressed by the intellectual ferment in France, particularly "the discussions influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and the structuralists on one side and the Sartre pupils on the other." But except for the novels of Michel Butor and Claude Simon, whom he considers the most talented exponents of the nouveau roman, the "new novel" that...
Kaiser also agrees with Steiner that German literature is in an era of creative ferment, partly because of the country's tradition of being open to influences from the East. On the other hand, he is skeptical of Russia's growing body of literature of dissent. "One shouldn't forget that everything that came from Prague in 1968 was, for purely political motives, a bit overestimated. One closed both eyes and found it a bit better than it was. This might also be the case with Solzhenitsyn today...