Word: post-modern
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...time interval; dancer B repeats event #1, adds event #2 and executes the sequence #1 & #2 in the same specified time interval; dancer performs events #1 & #2 & #3 in the same specified...and so on. An entire issue of The Drama Review recently was devoted to similar schemata, labeled "post-modern dance" by the editor...
...ablest Americans will be cooperative members of a smoothly functioning society. Vandenberg, who was a truculent dropout from the old society, likes the new one even less. There are moments when the interrogation scenes are better than pop and appear to be building toward a chilling foreview of post-modern society. So much that Vandenberg's therapist-interrogator says is plainly reasonable; the Soviets, by his plausible account, really are providing the greatest good for the greatest number. Very briefly, the reader is reminded of the coldly logical dialogues in Darkness at Noon between the old Bolshevik Rubashov...
JOHN BARTH'S End of the Road is one of my favorite post-modern novels, and when I have fantasized about someday making a movie, it has usually been one of the two or three books I have envisioned myself bringing to the screen in the early 1980s...
...Deal planner's intolerance of chaos-which may not prove as intolerable as he thinks. His analysis of power is a great deal more congenial to the American mind than Machiavelli's, which separated power from ethics. In outlining a basis for the post-modern world. Berle makes clear that power succeeds only with the help of philosophers, whose task is to cause man to agree on ideas of good and evil...
Since its founding, more than 7,000 ministers and laymen have attended seminars at the institute, while 250 have shared its life as interns and fellows. Many of them agree with Mathews that the institute is able to "articulate the mood, style and pattern of the post-modern world view" in ways that conventional churches cannot. Members of the institute, says Pierce, are "guinea pigs" who offer themselves in experiments that seek to discover "what new life style and structures are necessary" for Christianity's years ahead...