Word: nihilistically
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Thus, a figure of universal execration, he passed into history and literature. In Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Nechaev appears as the evil theoretician Shigalov and as a model for Verkhovensky, coldblooded manipulator of idealists. Nechaev and his dupes are portrayed as the dreadful Nihilist crew who were the progenitors of Bolshevism...
...author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist" or "ash-can school," we find that he is a most and profound...
...such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that raised official blood pressures was about a low-life nihilist-"He wore narrow trousers/ He read Hemingway"-who in the poem's climax loses his life trying to save a drowning comrade. This, to Marxist critics, is "poetic dishonesty...
Pink Centaur. Some coffeehouses are far out in a sense no beatnik could ever have imagined. The tony Florian on Boston's Newbury Street serves ten different kinds of coffee, caters to little old ladies nibbling anchovy canapes. Many establishments have specific dedications that would defy the nihilist beatnik code: New Orleans' House of the Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice...
...understand the college freshman who says, "He has a cool way of digging deep." There is an out-group too, people who find Sahl too brash and offensive. Warmth is simply not his gift, but this is not to say, as is often claimed, that he is a nihilist or that he hates everything. "His people" see him as the black knight of the implied positive-an idealist whose darkly critical moods really imply a yearning for perfection. "If I criticize somebody, it's only because I have higher hopes for the world," he says in a solemn moment...