Word: invention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, has set the young free, given them cars, given them prosperity -and yet still expects them to follow the rules. The compromise solution to this dilemma has long been petting, or "making out," as it is now known, which the U.S. did not invent but has carried to extreme lengths...
...tensegrity mast to use, except as decoration. But Fuller is not discouraged. As he wrote recently: "My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they're accepted. So I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented...
...medical meaning of many so-called psychosomatic and mental illnesses, Dr. Stainbrook believes, is that people feel dependent and want to be cared for. But this is socially unacceptable: "We force people to invent symptoms, rather than letting them say simply, 'I just need help for a while.' " Such a desire to be dependent may occur naturally at any of the major crossroads in life, Dr. Stainbrook said, and should not be regarded as an emotional illness. The real trouble in today's culture, he suggested, is that although everybody obviously must have feelings and emotions...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...
...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...