Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A revelation of the most important thing: the sense of pure energy radiating from beyond the dance. Ensemble produces a whole greater than the dancers through which the performers as individuals emerge. If music is, as Henri Bergson implies, our intuition of inner time made concrete, then dance makes concrete...
Chirac makes decisions impulsively and quickly-a trait that some observers predict will sooner or later lead him into a fatal blunder. Observes National Assembly President Edgar Faure: "Giscard plays bridge. Chirac plays poker." Gaullist leader Yves Guena looks at Chirac's propensity to take political gambles somewhat differently...
The prices, at least, suggest an intuition that good times lie ahead-although, of course, Paris originals are always expensive. The frocks are romantically opulent, pointing away from unisex or any parody of male dress. Maybe women feel sufficiently liberated by now to allow themselves frankly "feminine" dress. But are...
"He was born with the gift of laughter," Sabatini announces in the novel's opening sentence, "and a sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man...
As his shifts on affirmative action show, federal regulation of higher education has gradually become Derek Bok's number-one national issue. His position again reflects a curious and contradictory mixture of liberal stands: while Bok argues that government regulation ignores what he sees as the central role of "experience...