Word: obscurantists
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...Ulysses is published. So is T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Some claim it is a hoax, a parody of modernism's obscurantist tendencies. Others see its analogies to Joyce's work. Both are inferentially portraits of a pullulating urban landscape; both wear their classical erudition boldly. Which is to say, both writers embrace modernism's most basic hallmark--self- and cultural awareness--and know exactly what traditions they are undermining. The difference between them may be largely a matter of fastidiousness. Ulysses is finally an affirmation: "I put my arms around him yes and drew him down...
...original assumption was that he was a lightweight playboy who wouldn't last long in power," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But he's proved himself to be a very skillful operator in consolidating his position." Although it's been suggested that he may pursue economic reform in the obscurantist state, Kim's plans are anybody's guess: Despite negotiating international agreements with his government, no U.S. or Western leader has ever actually met the "Dear Leader...
That stance drew an attack from ThomsonProfessor of Government Martin L. Kilson, whosaid, "To some extent I believe the statement thatwas made before us was a bit obscurantist...
...received vitriolic press for Prospero's Books. American critics called me obscurantist. People assume there's only one kind of cinema-Hollywood-with some kind of emotional rapport between audience and screen...
...Texas Ranger; Powers Boothe as his old buddy, now a master dope smuggler and chatty amoralist; Maria Conchita Alonso as the woman they both love; and a wild bunch from the CIA or somewhere. Their task is to supply the movie with a little mystery and a lot of obscurantist firepower, enough to drown out conventional logic's objections to a vast silliness...