Word: fragmentism
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...bads seems to echo the savory words of Mark Twain, printed in 1892 by the New York Sun: "What I have been through in these two weeks would free a person of pretty much everything in him that wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They say they can cure any ailment...
PHILIP HEFFERTON, 30, specializes in cartoonish depictions of U.S. bank notes. "There is so much to explore in American money," he explains. A typical Hefferton, called Sinking George, is a rough representation of a dollar-bill fragment with Washington's head sinking out of sight. Hefferton's favorite bill, however, is the twenty, because it has a "free feeling...
...teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron, embossing, etc.... During the following years this school undertook building works (decorative, of course, since it was the fashion at that time): metal, stone, mosaic, stained-glass window (concert-room, church, fragment of a public edifice, etc...) One day everything collapsed before the rivalry and the hatred which had roused the old school against this New Section. The evolution of men, the manifestation of individualities, the divergences, finally overcame the enthusiasm...
...person were of the contrary opinion," mankind would still not be justified in silencing him. Yet at that very time, Karl Marx was writing Das Kapital, striking back at liberal individualism in the name of mankind. For the industrial worker, argued Marx, had been "reduced to a mere fragment of a man, mentally and physically dehumanized," and only collective action, state action, could redress his wrongs...
...taken too seriously. He persistently applied himself to real problems, to ones of great human import. And though James, with characteristic hospitality, would welcome the use of computer models and animal studies, he would have protested vehemently against sacrificing the fullness of life for a manageable but sterile fragment...