Word: fragmentism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What drew him into the dating game was the Gospel of John. In the 19th century newly liberated German Bible critics placed the fourth Gospel in the mid-2nd century because of its well-developed theology, but subsequent archaeological finds (e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls and an early fragment of the Gospel) forced the date back to A.D. 90-100. Robinson, however, felt even that was "unbelievably late," since the Gospel makes no mention of the sack of Jerusalem and destruction of the Jewish Temple...
...faults of The Last Tycoon as a movie are mainly those of the book, to which screenwriter Harold Pinter has, on the whole, been faithful. What Fitzgerald left us when he died was only a fragment of a novel, a draft of a story still halfway from completion. Fitzgerald's narrator is Cecilia Brady, the daughter of Stahr's business partner, who views Hollywood "with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house." It is through Cecilia, whose gaze is at first glazed by infatuation and later embittered by cynicism, that we meet and experience Monroe Stahr...
...volume represents only a fragment of the articles that Darwin wrote in his cramped, feverish longhand over a 46 year span and had dispatched by telegraph to London, at the night rate of eighty shillings a word. When Darwin was abroad, luxury liners like the Baltic and the Lusitania ploughed the seas carrying his copy in stow...
...would like to concentrate on a kind of experiment that is causing great concern and is restricted to quite special facilities: the so-called "shotgun" experiment with random fragments of DNA from animal cells. Two considerations seem pertinent. First, the probability that any fragment will contain a gene for a toxic product, or the genes of a tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms...
More recently, Huntington wrote a controversial article for the Trilateral Commission about democracy in the United States, in which he argued that expanded participation may fragment the nation's political consensus...