Word: promethean
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Despite the mixed reaction, Wilson in this and subsequent books--culminating with Promethean Fire (1983)--accomplished something few scientists can claim. He established a new field of science. It is known to this day as sociobiology...
News from the Department of Miracles and Promethean Hubris...
Musical inclusiveness has its price, though: Eating from the tree of knowledge leads to the fall. Sadly, the more I listen to popular music the more I know I’ll never re-experience the initial, Promethean moment of personal discovery of the very concept of pop music. I’m sure that’s not a unique feeling. Oh, to be 15 again and have music mean everything and be certain about my musical opinions. To know that when Michael Stipe sang it was the expression of my inner voice, and then to resent the fact...
...tribe formerly known as the Catty People turned all gooey at the sight of Mike and his Promethean paws. Elisabeth wept, Jeff was about to puke like a rookie cop at a crime scene, and even Alicia managed to look concerned at her rival for head alpha male. Maybe it was the raw tragedy of it all, maybe it was the sight of Mike screaming for drugs like a woman in labor. ("Shots - drugs - pain - I can take it - I'll take whatever you give me!") Maybe it was just that they'd gotten really excited about the prospect...
Some American artists and photographers were critical of Promethean technology. The image of the impersonal, overwhelming machine, successor to Blake's "satanic mills," flourished after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Others saw salvation in it. But certainly no culture responded so passionately to it as America's; and in doing so, it produced the complicated and morally fraught self-portrait whose outlines are traced in this exhibition. For once, the Whitney has come up with a show that nobody interested in America and its self-image can afford to miss...