Word: tensions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high level of political instability" in 1968, while the Philippines have a "high level of political stability"? The situation in South Africa appears to me parallel in one respect to that of the Philippines, with a government able to impose itself for a relatively long period while the tension builds up and the period may end up in a bloody revolution. After all, it took 146 years for the French ancien regime (say, from 1643--Louis XIV's coming as a King--to 1789) to evolve into the French revolution. I would not call the ancien regime "highly politically stable...
Simon's idea of high comedy is to construct sitcom-like scenarios of marital tension and infidelity, milking all the lame laughter he can get out of it. In California Suite, four couples come at different times to the same suite of a posh hotel. They proceed to harangue each other, making snide remarks about their mates' sexual prowess, and to show how very un-funny California life...
Toscanini's viscerally exciting performances, wrought with supreme tension and instrumental clarity, though sometimes sacrificing musical depth, also account for his popularity, according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
Gross should have spent less time worrying about shock value and more time getting performances that are expressive enough to sustain the play's angst and tension for nearly three hours. In that length of time, none of the women can find any way to express nervousness other than clutching at their skirts, or any way to express happiness other than pirouetting...
...This tension reveals perhaps the crucial point: Walzer defends the interpretive model he embraces by offering many examples of Jewish rabbinical interpretation and story-telling. Indeed the third chapter of his book initially was presented before the Harvard Hillel, an audience familiar with that tradition's rich biblical foundations. For Jews deeply concerned with Judaism at a personal and political level--and Walzer is such a person--these stories and the approach they embody are deeply persuasive. But Walzer forgets that the language of rights and duties, a language which Rawls attempts to sharpen and shape, has an enduring history...