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...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...album’s turning point, “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” is repetitive and almost 12 minutes long. The songs afterward are darker, but slowly return to the album’s original sweetness. Listening to “Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse,” a saccharine tune about chemical dependence, is like watching the video to old single “Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games,” in which cute happy creatures meet grisly ends. It perfectly sums up the ethos of deceptively sweet...
...Krauthammer's essay was neatly designed to turn all criticism of Bush into symptoms of liberal jealousy, envy and spite. Bush's Promethean overreaching, his imperial scorn for trade agreements and the U.N., his warmongering?all were presented as signs of greatness. I looked in vain for some sign that this was satire. Alas, it wasn't. Price Caldwell Tokyo...
...Beverage has signed a 10-year, $10 million deal to sponsor the Monster train (named for its Monster Energy drink) and plans to give drink samples to passengers and display video ads. "We prefer to call it a totally immersive branding environment," says Patrick Pharris, chief executive of Promethean Partners, which is selling the monorail's advertising and has also secured Motorola as an early partner. Ad revenues will help subsidize fares on the monorail, which will be the first modern U.S. public-transit system financed entirely by private funds...
...Show Boat." He was a star in American and British movies, a magnetic concert basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...