Word: ideas
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MOSCOW: Most Russians would happily admit they have no idea what the National Idea Commission is for. Trouble is, neither does the National Idea Commission. Boris Yeltsin summoned this august group of intellectuals in the aftermath of his narrow 1996 election victory, and charged them with finding out what the big idea was ? in other words, what makes Russia Russian now that Communism's gone? Well, after a year of extremely deep thought, the Commission has reconvened to tell the world: Sorry, we haven't a clue...
...They even dusted off a few patriotic slogans from the past. But somehow, "Workers of the World, Unite!" just doesn't have the same ring anymore. And the old czarist favorite, "Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationhood," lacks that all-important democratic touch. In their report "Russia in Search of an Idea," the Commission delivers a lot of weighty analysis ? try ploughing through chapters like "The Distribution of Metaphors Related to the Understanding of the National Idea" or "The Ideology of Language and the Language of Ideology" ? but not an original notion to be found. Now Boris is left to foot...
...Hutelmyer herself--she married Joseph this year--says the jury merely chose to ignore her side of the story. She has never denied that she and Joseph had an affair; but the idea that he had been happily married before she came along is "ludicrous and absurd... The two of them had not had any physical relationship in over seven years. If my husband had not made love to me in seven years, I would think there was a problem...
...have no idea where Peov is today. Seng was adopted by a family in Massachusetts, and the last I heard from him he was studying math in a university. If the two of them saw the televised pictures of Pol Pot during the Khmer Rouge show trial, I cannot imagine what they thought...
...there is something almost surreal in the contrast between the detachment and formal purity of Khmer sculpture and the circumstances under which so much of it precariously survives. To walk into this show is to shift gears; to be immersed in an extremely slow-moving tradition to which the idea of innovation, beloved in the West, means little or nothing. Compared with Indian sculpture, from which it ultimately derives, Cambodian art is quite restricted in its range of subject: there isn't the same bewildering pullulation of different gods. In Cambodia the same cast recurs again and again: the Buddha...