Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I sat down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning.
I no longer felt out of step with the other marchers. It seemed as if our chants had become synchronized and, in doing so, gained meaning. We spoke clearly; we spoke with a strong voice.
Many intellectuals consider Children of the Arbat to be the most important work of fiction by a Soviet author since Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, not least because it treats subjects that Soviet literature has never dealt with before. Rybakov's book is an attempt to come to literary terms...
In conclusion, we should consider what Boyd's cartoon does to the term "racism." It only dilutes further a word that has already lost most of its meaning. By calling all conservatives racist, he robs the charge of its impact when it is leveled against people who really are racist...
Although he does not want to, he--and the film--must eventually piece together the memories, clues, and chance meetings to confront the question, "Was there a reason?" Was there a reason that the Steenwijks were singled out for destruction, or a reason that Anton alone survived? These questions imply...