Word: phrased
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Along with an assortment of German neoexpressionists and many others besides, the three Italians were packaged in a sonorous phrase by a Roman critic: la transavanguardia, or the "trans-avant-garde." This clot of art jargon, like "post-modernism," means nothing definable. It merely points to a mood of eclectic revivalism, the assumption being that since progress in art is a myth, painting must perforce go crabwise, with many nostalgic glances backward. Under such a vague rubric, Chia looks a very apposite painter. Granted, neither he nor his fellow transavanguardisti get anywhere near the best German art of this generation...
...Clark has no training in the substance of the memos. Indeed, he seems to be, in the uncomplimentary phrase of one White House aide, "content-free." He is conservative, but his ideological inclinations are visceral and seldom fine-tuned. Clark, a close friend of Reagan's, mainly seems to reinforce the President's rightward tendencies. On those rare occasions when he does come down hard on one side of an issue, Clark seems too emphatic, as if he seeks to be decisive for the sake of decisiveness. Says a senior State Department official: "He makes decisions that only...
...fulfilled only after basic economic and security needs had been met. And in the sixties, among relatively affluent college students, it did indeed seem to be a time when economic needs had been met and one could safely "tune in turn on and drop out" to use the catch phrase that I eary popularized Students began experimenting in a variety of ways to fulfill themselves through more, and more varied types of yoga, meditation, jogging, or sex, through drugs, through living in cabins in the woods, through joining spiritual movements, through giving up family and career, and above all through...
...waving a small red flag that says, "Wake up, Reader; something is going to happen.") Unhappily, after finishing the paragraph, I was forced to admit that the incident in question had not irretrievably bent the twig of events. Yet I hated to give up such a well-made phrase. Would I leave it in because it was good writing or take it out because it was not good history? History governed and it was lost to posterity (although, you notice, I have rescued it here). Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. Am I writer first...
...find myself "quoted" in both issues. The April 5th quote was alleged to have been uttered "yesterday" i.e. April 4th, and although the April 6th article does not explicitly tell when the statement it cites was made the impression of currency is given by the use of the phrase "he says" and inclusion of the alleged quotation along with statements resulting from a Crimson survey conducted "this week." I have no quarrel with the content of the comments attributed to me. They are statements I might have made. But I am very disturbed by their attribution, because I was away...