Word: inhabitations
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...what happens when people of different origins, speaking different languages and professing different religions, inhabit the same locality and live under the same political sovereignty? Ethnic and racial conflict -- far more than ideological conflict -- is the explosive problem of our times...
...World War II began, Albert Camus wrote in his notebook: "The reign of beasts has begun." In the past year or two, the reign of beasts seemed to end, in some places anyway: brilliant days, miraculous remissions. But as Jung thought, different people inhabit different centuries. There are many centuries still loose in the world today, banging against one another. The war in the gulf was in part a collision of different centuries and the cultural assumptions that those centuries carry with them. Camus's beasts are still wandering around in the desert and in the sometimes fierce nationalisms reawakening...
...Goodman's eyes, and they ground everything he does in reality. Midler, on the other hand, is our great show-biz floozy, and Allen personifies the anxious urban intellect. It is hard to insert their screen personas into the kind of normal, middle- class lives they are supposed to inhabit here. They require highly stylized vehicles in order to do their best work. Lacking that, neither they nor the audience knows quite what to make of these figures. Are they supposed to be the objects of satire or affection...
...provocative and erudite new book, The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett argues that the past two millennia have seen the construction of walls of isolation and introspection around the human soul. In particular, he believes, the structure of the cities we inhabit has both prompted and reflected an increasing tendency to separate the spiritual and social aspects of our lives. The physical qualities of public spaces no longer express the complexities of our psychic existence; when we wish to contemplate, we withdraw. In places like classical Athens, Sennett writes...
...have had the courage to combat the massive disinformation campaign that began to confront us when we were innocent little froshlings entering the Yard for the first time. Poster gum, we were told, magically allows us to decorate our rooms without destroying the (ahem) priceless architectural treasures we inhabit. (I apologize to Mather House residents for excluding them from the discourse. Try to think back to your first year, and maybe something will ring a bell. If you lived in Canaday, I can't help...