Word: primordiale
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The photographs are becoming a sort of genre of the late 20th century: the massacre shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in...
The story of Steinbrenner and his baseball team occasionally takes on odd, mythic dimensions, the quality of an American parable, like The Great Gatsby. Steinbrenner has invented an archetype for himself: Superowner, a primordial character, all barging and beefy dictatorial will, more famous than any of his players. He is...
The philosopher William James expressed a similar reaction after a visit to Chautauqua in 1896: "I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. And yet what was my own astonishment...
In spite of its leadership in the exploration of the solar system, however, J.P.L.'s future has seemed cloudy lately. Almost immediately after the Reagan Administration took office, it canceled a joint effort with the Europeans to survey the sun's unexplored polar regions. The U.S. also dropped...
If man by some inconceivable grace were to give up war, it would be an evolutionary step almost equivalent to his primordial emergence from the sea. From the start, or at least since he got himself organized, war has been something that man did. War and peace were the rhythm...