Word: rebirth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weeks theorizes that U.S. prosperity and leisure time in the postwar period have resulted in a rebirth of homegrown oddballitry. He found that American eccentrics are just as humorous as their British peers, but generally kinder and less sarcastic. The Americans seemed to rely more on intuition and chutzpah than logic or rationality. Thanks to the American legacy of political rebelliousness, Weeks says, U.S.-bred eccentrics tend to hold more radical views than their better-born British brethren. "Eccentricity flourishes where there is freedom of expression," he says. "You won't find eccentrics tolerated in repressive regimes or countries where...
Chabon is one in a long line of young novelists to examine the strange bric-a-brac of our day. Unlike Jay McInerney--whose debut novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was a dirge devoid of rebirth, and set in the heart of the New World jungle, New York City--Chabon retains a Midwestern sensibility and even-mindedness. Chabon's prose can be as funny as McInerney's, but its message is more cheerful...
...Personally, professionally and creatively, these may well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from...
...both parties must find their post-Reagan souls. The task is not easy, as their rebirth pains show. Last week the foolish notion that this could largely be sorted out by 400,000 voters in Iowa and New Hampshire was dispelled. As both parties head South, it seems likely that their infighting will continue until voters in the 48 other states get their...
...Nature -- the mother of all that is valuable in poetry, painting or anything else where an appeal to the soul is required." Natural vision, the sense of English terrain, exalted hopes of freedom, fear of the apocalyptic violence that lurked in human nature and, above all, a sense of rebirth in all departments of life -- it is not easy to reimagine the ferment of those times. Throughout Europe, the 1790s were a hinge on which the very idea of culture as a force in human affairs turned. A new principle entered art and poetry: renewal through radical change...