Word: obscurantist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year, 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
...Lately, the range of Wallace's appeal [Sept. 13] has disturbed me. The racist, hate-oriented and obscurantist flavor of his political stand has always offended me. The appeal of his ceaseless efforts to assail the "pseudointellectual" elements in our nation has particularly concerned me. The social, economic, political and technological problems we face are among the thorniest and most complex that have ever confronted us. They require intellect for solution. But George Wallace vilifies intellect and inevitably links it with subversive interests...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...
...that evangelical Christianity represents a step toward maturity of the conservative impulse. "Conservative Christianity is growing by trying to become respectable," says Dr. Nels Ferré of the liberal Andover Newton Theological School, and he credits it with seeking "an intelligent evangelical faith. The conservative movement is neither an obscurantist fundamentalism nor a negative modernism-and it is making inroads everywhere...