Word: rousseau
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...stylized hills that suggest haste rather than observation. But his candid style has an impact on the modern viewer that Remington's hyped-up romanticism no longer does. His so-called ineptness of drawing has been re-evaluated in the wake of the incisive simplicities of a Douanier Rousseau or even a John Kane. He relied on a plain clarity of eye in an age in which this virtue ranked rather...
...most aggressively competitive series of confessions since Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Like a sinner who does not want to miss any bets, Billie Jean King made the rounds of the major churches and synagogues of press and television last week. She unburdened herself to ABC'S Barbara Walters, the one woman in America officially empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution. She went over the scandal with Rona Barrett. She spent ten hours with an old friend from PEOPLE...
Goodfield's second romantic image is revealed by her quoting the aphorism of Rousseau "Hypotheses are the revelation of genius." For Goodfield, pure ideas and intuition are the stuff of research, the rest is technical, petty, routine and boring. But the refrain "ideas are cheap" is quite common in labs. Experiments, data. techniques and results are the requirements for ideas. the true ingredients of successful science...
...Influence of Rousseau upon Dostoevsky. Robin F. Miller, who divides her time between the RRC and a teaching position at Columbia University, just finished a critique of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In her book, Miller examines the way the author manipulates his readers, forcing them to confront complicated moral matters. While working on the book, Miller became interested in Dostoevsky's use of confessions, a genre she argues, he adopted from Rousseau. "There are two passages in Rousseau which Dostoevsky returns to over and over in parodies and other ways. For instance, Rousseau used to wander the streets at night...
...with infections, sores and other maladies that medicine had not seen I since the 13th century. The flower children had simply unlearned centuries of civilization's experience in the field of hygiene; in their bedding, clothing and grooming they had reverted to a state of nature that Rousseau never imagined. Then, gropingly and painfully, they went about reformulating the basic rules of body maintenance: they reinvented soap and water...