Word: nihilisme
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AFEW YEARS ago, when The Sex Pistols first toured America, this country began to be conscious of a strange movement, an unprecedented mix of nihilistic attitudes, bizarre fashion and screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case...
It's a little hokey, no doubt, but then this prodding message seems to have less in common with the nihilism of the punk movement than with the more expansive hippie movement of the sixties. Husker Du's true roots, as this album and their single "Eight Miles High" demonstrate...
Anew book by Saul Bellow is an important event, and not only because he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. That award merely confirmed what thousands of readers had decided years earlier: Bellow's fiction offers a look at life that is not only essential but is...
And, in a sense, this entire album represents what one can achieve through force of will. Husker Du's lyrics may be didactic, but they never become too preachy, too cliche, or too trite. And even though the band may present a harsh, discordant, and even at times bitter vision...
But Sociology Professor Nathan Glazer cautioned that "nihilism" may not be nationally pervasive, adding that "there must be parts of the country where the teaching of openness is a worthwhile undertaking."