Word: stendhal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shklar is lavish with her praise of the musical talents of the rest of the family. "I'm square," she says repeatedly, and this is the same term she uses for her taste. Her favorite composer is Mozart, her best-loved authors those of the "Great tradition: Tolstoy, Stendhal, Proust, Balzac." In conversation she speaks affectionately of Rousseau as "the old boy," almost making one forget the brilliant and learned pages of her Men and Citizens: Rousseau's Social Theory, in which Jean-Jacques is treated in somewhat; more depth and in the opinions of Shklar's fellow scholars...
...were sullen, mud-caked and silently straining to hear the music. He dismisses the claim that Woodstock was the soul-expanding event portrayed in Michael Wadleigh's film documentary. Well and good. But amid the chaos of Max Yasgur's farm, Cook seems a little like Stendhal's young soldier, who doesn't realize that he's in the battle of Waterloo because he perceives it as only a scattering of minor incidents. Likewise, Cook inadvertently stumbles upon a critical subject: the contrast and relationship of reality to myth. If Woodstock ever becomes a milestone...
...reader will never know that Marx popularized the word alienation; that Freud supplied most of the vocabulary Anderson must use to discuss the "imperial self" in the first place. The last poet unaffected by an "imperial self" was a medieval troubadour, the last philosopher, Thomas Aquinas. Would Anderson blame Stendhal's The Red and the Black for the disintegration of "communal ties" in Europe...
...period. Harvard's annual budget increased from $39 million to $188 million, the numbered of endowed chairs more than doubled, to 277, and the Federal share of the budget grew from one-tenth to one-third. Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendhal, and provided new housing for the Education and Design schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and William James. Monuments to Pusey's ability as a builder will remain all over Cambridge long after the current generation...
Often, Joyce Carol Oates' creations suggest 19th century romantic novels: a Tolstoy heroine tuned to the breaking point over the frets of love, a Dostoevsky soul glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...