Word: psychee
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The solitary hero, fighting overwhelming odds with guts and guile, has been a fixture in the American psyche--not to mention American pop culture--since the times of Andrew Jackson.
The lexicon of Baconian imagery is famous. Its most familiar component is the screaming Pope, smearily rising from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm, his throne indicated by a pair of gold finials, the whole enclosed in a sketchy cage -- homage to an original that Bacon firmly denies having ever seen, the...
The term "women's studies" encompasses a wide range of specific disciplines and fields, examining new and "unconventional" facts or methods of analysis integrating the influence or contribution of women. New and important aspects of women's studies include feminist literary criticism; history and government courses examining women's roles...
A movie must begin with words: a book, a script, an acknowledgment from a producer that a concept is not a bankable text. David Thomson, a London-born critic based in San Francisco, reverses the procedure with a work of fiction drawn entirely from old films. His sources are such...
The conclusion of BACKFIRE: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did is precisely the opposite. Loren Baritz attempts to show the Vietnam War as a product of the American political and cultural psyche, a war that had to be...