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Word: intuitionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soll juxtaposes incongruous images, a waltz and an hours-long fall or love-making and a corpse-like pose. She warps time and space, creates endless moments and an unidentifiable yet distinct place--I felt as if I must have seen the dance sometime before. This ability to shade time...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: At the Still Point | 5/18/1976 | See Source »

Aldrich's misunderstanding of the social and political climate at Harvard serves his ends. He wants us to imagine that sullen cadres are manning the ramparts in defense of fairness, for it supports his belief in the broader, more nefarious movement that threatens to turn Harvard into just another indistinguishable...

Author: By James B. Witkin, | Title: Pride, Privilege and Prejudice | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

To advocate the use of "intuition" is to advocate no specific policies unless one is willing to provide an ideology to direct the intuition. A radical's intuitive approach to Harvard admissions might prescribe a drastic cut in the number of preppies admitted to make more spaces available to minority...

Author: By James B. Witkin, | Title: Pride, Privilege and Prejudice | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

The outlook of the characters is thoroughly reductionist, their feelings and moods governed by chemicals and simple physical drives. Yet through the drugged, alcoholic, and lustful haze, the characters are troubled by an occasional resonance of deeper spiritual longings, in the form of 'street sadness' and 'false memories'. These bad...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Parade of Horrors | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

None of her friends seem to have reciprocated Ottoline's intensity, to have gone beyond the outside decor of flowing gowns and ostrich feathers, past the insistent questioning to the woman beneath. W.J. Turner, a little-known Australian poet, came closest to the truth in his novel The Aesthetes, where...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Moth and Her Flames | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

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