Word: lasch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Narcissism has probably been increasing since the Renaissance, picking up speed in the 1970s when Tom Wolfe coined the Me decade and Christopher Lasch wrote The Culture of Narcissism, then speeding into hyperdrive during the past few years. Both Twenge and Pinsky argue that the narcissism of celebrities is being mirrored in the culture by Americans who, like a child, mimic attention-getting star behavior by singing on YouTube, sexting photos, getting plastic surgery or naming their totally non-Hungarian son Laszlo Stein. (Watch Stein visit a couple getting Botox at home...
...Although the Huskies, who boast a top-10 power play, took seven of their 10 first-period shots with a man advantage, both sides remained scoreless through the first period.St. Cloud State finally found the net late in the second, on a power-play tally from Ryan Lasch with 1:34 left in the frame. Senior Jon Pelle tied up the game early in the third period with a man-advantage strike of his own, finishing off a pass from junior Brian McCafferty.The Huskies regained control of the game on another power-play goal from Lasch, taking...
...generation ago, the social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal disorder of contemporary American culture. The cult of celebrity, the marketing of instant gratification, skepticism toward moral codes and the politics of victimhood were signs of a society regressing toward the infant stage. You don't have to buy Freud's explanation or Lasch's indictment, however, to see an immediate danger in the way we examine the lives of mass killers. Earnestly and honestly, detectives and journalists dig up apparent clues and weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris...
...Merrill Markoe's portrayal of dating and marriage in the 21st century. Markoe, an Emmy-winning TV writer, is most recently the author of the essay collection What the Dogs Have Taught Me. We also resolved to challenge some assumptions about society's direction, a mission that historian Christopher Lasch handles skillfully in an essay on the shortcomings of progress, which was the subject of his 1991 book, The True and Only Heaven...
CONTRIBUTORS: Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Lasch, Merrill Markoe...