Word: forthings
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Westerners, who have wandered through centuries of darkness and enlightenment and rationalism and scientific method and then the various neo- darknesses of the 20th century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and so on), have some difficulty with these dreamy effects in which reality and illusion float back and forth interchangeably. Americans have a special longing of their own. They need to know they are working in a scheme of virtue. Americans feel a moral unease when they sense that their power is banging around loose in the world without being, in a sort of theological sense, justified. The antiwar slogan "No Blood...
Whence this angry dismissal of a "fellow Arab" by a self-proclaimed Pan-Arabist if "Arabism is the most precious thing every Arab has," the sustaining Arab "spirit," the "blood" in the Arab soul, and so forth...
This pictorial core is preceded by a scale model of the original installation in Munich (an astonishing piece of detective work in itself), complete with the Nazis' derogatory slogans ("Revelation of the Jewish racial soul," "The ideal -- cretin and whore," and so forth) written around them. The museum has also produced voluminous samplings of other aspects of the Nazi program of culture as total propaganda. There are vitrines of banned books and Nazi catalogs, and tape loops of old newsreels of cultural parades in Munich: triumphal processions of kitsch, with huge papier-mache Greek heads borne by people dressed...
...that is exactly what attracts him to the forum, admits the literature concentrator, who is also an editor of Padan Aram. "The comments are always amusing because people are so full of themselves, especially when it starts to go back and forth and you see commentary on the commentary," he says...
Brady was clearly mindful of the S&L mess when he put forth his proposals. To avoid taxpayers' having to bail out failed banks, the plan would limit depositors to a total of $200,000 of federal insurance per bank. That would include $100,000 in checking and savings accounts and $100,000 in retirement accounts...