Word: synthesise
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The current musical fare, with a few exceptions, pales in comparison to Zappa's earlier work. His mid-'60s pieces ranged from impassioned social commentary, as in "Who Are the Brain Police," to fifties rhythm and blues parodies, to lengthy explorations of the subconscious ("Help, I'm a Rock"). What...
The food crisis today is described by some futurologists in apocalyptic terms. Some kind of black death or brown is imminent. Famine, starvation, rebellion occur; the synthesis of progress based on energy, trade, and capital is broken by new (old) resource imperialisms, expropriations and capital shortages with rising costs of...
So with this fine history behind them, it is a joyless task to report that Focus On Me, Caravan's new production that opened last week, just doesn't work. The play was written by the company's director, Bobbi Ausubel, under a grant given by the Radcliffe Institute. It...
Eugene Genovese succeeds in recreating the lost world of slaves and slaveholders in large part because he's thought about all this. As America's best-known Marxist historian, Genovese thinks of all history as a story of people in classes--classes whose relations are always historically unique because they...
Because Genovese writes about all the people he discusses as members of social classes that no longer exist, that stamped their humanity without destroying it, he's able to understand them as we might wish to be understood by the scholar of the future. He's able to understand them...