Word: invented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because Wolfe did not invent philistinism...
...Threat. Pepper's work also speaks about the ground it sits on. "I am interested in geological shapes," she says, wryly adding that "if you're born in Brooklyn, you have to invent some kind of landscape for yourself." Her latest projects have moved into an area explored by only a few other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas...
...Lessing's final, heartbreaking effect is to place her characters and her readers between the dead ghosts of the past and the unborn ghosts of the future. She goes so far as to invent a set of rooms into which, as in a recurrent dream, her narrator magically steps to observe a child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future...
...This conflict is a godsend for the Soviets," said a Western diplomat in Moscow about the Middle East's long no-war, no-peace situation. "If it didn't exist, they would have to invent it." Certainly Moscow has made diplomatic, political and military headway in the Middle East by encouraging unsettled conditions between Israel and the Arab countries. Ever since the U.S. rebuffed Egypt's President Nasser by refusing to sell him weapons in 1955 and, a year later, withdrawing financial aid to build the Aswan High Dam, mammoth development projects and sophisticated Soviet weapons have...
...beauty, which he alone understood, for public "beauty," which can be understood by everybody. With a Party card in his pocket, he discovers a way to satisfy his jealous anxieties. His girlfriend, late for a rendez-vous with him, does not find anything better to appease him than to invent a story about her brother leaving the country for the West. Jaromil (who by this time has achieved prominence by giving poetry readings to police agents) goes immediately to denounce her to the National Security. In the evening once she is already in jail, it occurred to him that...