Word: shouting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such abstract values very quickly come into conflict with social "facts of life." There are the obvious examples: one is not free to shout fire in a crowded theater. And it gets more confusing. In the past, speaking in favor of socialism was equated with shouting fire in a theater, and it too was illegal. In the same way, one is not "free" to murder, because murder is not in society's interests. But here we face the real dilemma: someone must decide what killing is in society's interests, and what killing is not. So thus it is permissible...
...predicted Muhammad Ali three years ago, after the World Boxing Association, in a fit of moral fervor, stripped him of his heavyweight title because he had been convicted of draft evasion. Ali's prophecy was at least half right. Never more than a scene-stealing shout away from ringside, keeping in the headlines with a flurry of lectures and boasts, the champ-in-exile did indeed haunt the sport. He was a titleholder stripped of his rights?not by the fists of another fighter but by decree of a pretentious body of boxing executives...
...Jubilant Shout. Schwitters did not invent collage as a medium-Braque and Picasso were ahead of him. But when he began making his first assembled images in 1918, he managed to shift the function and look of collage far from its cubist origins. He rummaged through the trash cans of his native Hannover the way an archaeologist might pick over a buried midden heap, on the sound theory that a culture reveals itself in what it throws away. Schwitters was the first to make poetry of this fact, calling his collages "Merz-pictures." The word came from a fragment...
...Schwitters' use of junk reflected a Dadaist disgust, a sense of hopelessness and pessimism in the wake of Germany's defeat. In fact, his art was a joyful celebration. "The whole swindle that men call war was finished," Schwitters wrote. "... I felt myself freed and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country. One can even shout out through refuse, and this is what I did, nailing and gluing it together . . . Everything had broken down in any case...
...anti-SDS brigade concentrated its forces near the front of Sanders, ready to lock arms to stop SDS from rushing the platform. But SDS never tried. Instead, they sat behind slogan-painted banners and shouted "Profits" and "American capitalism" and similar consciousness raisers at every available opportunity. When they started chanting "Let SDS speak," Michael Walzer, the moderator, appealed to the audience and easily discredited the disrupters. The crowd was hardly pro-SDS. Similarly, towards the end of the evening, Walzer was able to defuse a questioner who tried to bring up the question of support to Israel. With...