Word: mythic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seal has grown as a writer and a performer. His vocals, always strong, are now more nuanced and expressive. On the low-key breakup song, No Easy Way, he is aching and vulnerable; on the expansive When a Man Is Wrong, he is charismatic and commanding. Seal can sound mythic and virile and optimistic and lost and loving all in the same song. Yet he never oversings his compositions; he feels the spirit but is never ruled...
...hyperconsciousness of the tribal is one of the functions of city life. Certainly it was for Pollock, and from it stemmed his abiding interest in the "totemic"--in mythic images that were either lost to modern, Euro-American culture or buried so far back in its origins that they seemed mysterious and exotic. Pollock in the late 1930s was a boy in deep emotional trouble, drinking like a fish and undergoing Jungian analysis. Like other Abstract Expressionists-to-be (Mark Rothko, for instance), he was on the lookout for archetypes and dark, unconsulted levels of feeling, in the hope that...
...recently came across these words, uttered by a noted Harvard professor and thought they should be shared. It's a standard criticism of the place: too big, too self-absorbed, too cold. Harvard may have a mythic reputation, people say, but for the best undergraduate experience, you should go to Princeton or Amherst or Rice...
Every argument against universal keycard access is weak. Safety will be compromised by universal access, some claim, because anyone with a Harvard ID can get in anywhere. Wrong. First, who are these Harvard ID-bearers the masters are afraid of? Harvard students? Or is it that mythic unshaven creature of Harvard Square, beer on his breath and bad deeds on his mind, who finds an ID in the crosswalk on Mass. Ave. and jumps at the chance to infiltrate the Harvard system? That is not likely to happen. People don't drop their ID cards on the street all that...
...possible that the Neanderthals are on to something. Despite all the talk of role models and ethics that has dominated the airwaves recently, male leadership isn't just rooted in morality; it has a murky, mythic basis too. Ask Machiavelli: Power is aura. Power is potency. The guys with the power tools illustrated a truth: even in nominal Judeo-Christians there's a lurking Nietzschean whose first commandment is, Thou Shalt Not Screw Up. His second is, If You Do, Don't Whine About...