Word: fret
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...that the subject of this somber book is the postmodern 'condition' would imply that the condition is now universal, perhaps even ingrained in human nature and society. This is empirically a falsehood, since, for the most part, Zulus and Czech window-washers do not fret over, let alone care, about postmodernism...
...Kids also take a stab at social relevance on Keepin' My Fingers Crossed. Their naivete is almost charming as they fret over violence and the dire state of humanity, concluding, "I guess the only thing you can do is keep your fingers crossed...
...four-time Grammy winner insists that rock fans need not fret about being deprived of old auditory pleasures. "There will be times when you just want to listen to music as a one-sense operation," he says, "and there will be other times when you want to sit down and get your hands dirty and play with it." Nor does Gabriel suffer from the traditional artist's skepticism, even fear, of technology's power tools. "I'm a great believer that technology has to go through two waves," he declares. "The first wave can dehumanize, but the second wave...
Some critics fret that all this criss-crossing will damage society's essential "American" core. By this they usually mean a confluence of attitudes, values and assumptions that drive Americans' centuries-old quest for a better life. What they fail to acknowledge is that legal, educational and economic changes continuously alter the priorities within that same set of social variables. A few generations back, religion, race and custom superseded all other considerations. When Kathleen Hobson and Atul Gawande, both 27, married last year, however, they based their vision of a shared future on a different set of common values...
...sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith in the future; it does not capture the reader's imagination. Colwin's book barely engages the reader...