Word: infinitum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this confidence to know that she can do anything she likes, Nancy does the things she likes most, like playing jazz piano interpersed with a little Bach and Brahms all night in the Winthrop Common Room, making mobiles, drawing cartoons, and editing film ("the thing I could do ad infinitum' which she once did for 50 consecutive hours.) Sometimes when she feels the need to socialize, she goes out into the courtyard to look for lit rooms, and knocks on doors there until wee hours of the morning. Occasionally, Nancy goes to bars, "but that," she sneers, "is kids' stuff...
DESPITE A RECENT awakening of interest in Africa and African culture, cliched National Geographic images of tribal Africa still predominate in the American consciousness: the hunter, spear poised, body glistening and tense, the wife, child at her naked breast, ad infinitum. Completely alien to the American experience, these stereotypes only further remove the average American, black or white, from tribal modes of existence in Africa...
Political correspondents from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NBC News, ad infinitum, are delivering a conventional wisdom that the Democrats latest convention is evidence of a return to conservative sanity after the ideological rending of 1968 and 1972. Martin Nolan, one of the best of Washington columnists, compares the McGovern and Carter installations as a constrast between a Rotary convention and Woodstock nation. This viewpoint implies that the Democrats have gone back to being something akin to the Christian Democrats of Italy--a permanent majority party dedicated to winning elections and dispensing patronage, oblivious to broader issues since...
...things--the street and violence--and he seems to have a very real, accurate sense of both. But in his debut, his enthusiasm for his subject overwhelmed any possibility of creating a tightly structured movie of sustained interest. Instead, he presented us fistfight after gunbattle after fistfight ad infinitum, and the final effect was to numb rather than involve us. Because the flow of passion had been so steady during the movie, the "climactic" shootout was hardly cathartic at all--it merely appeared a degree or two more intense than what had preceded...
...language available." And his own answer seems less than adequate. "There's no reason why a language devised by man should be inadequate to describe any of man's works. The difficulty was in admitting that the war had been made by men and was being continued ad infinitum by them." Fussell rejects Louis Simpson's theory that infantry soldiers so seldom render their experiences in language because "language seems to falsify physical life and to betray those who have experienced it absolutely--the dead." Fussell reduces the whole problem to this: it's not that war is indescribable...