Word: theatric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never took it seriously, and I'm surprised to have to prove to anybody that Alice Cooper is no threat, merely the latest in a series of progressively more theatric rock performance. To call his performance antilife, when it is really an attempt to augment a medium that is in danger of stagnation, is to deny his innovative efforts, and is wildly paranoic to boot. Concern for society is one thing, witch hunting is another. Besides, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention were performing almost precisely the same things almost four years ago. Zappa's atrocities, as they were called...
Pusey's appeal is somewhat like that of the medieval church to peasants. We must trudge on, with blinders affixed, through these troubled times, eyes always on the "world of reason, modesty, charity and trust." This is the liberal dream-world; its theatric the mortar of the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie, no more concretely responsive to the anguish of the world now than it was a hundred years...
...reading. Each one represents the view of a different man, in a different discipline, and usually in a different institution from all the other contributors, with a unique viewpoint. If any criticism can be made, it is that the more radical of the contributors have chosen to indulge in theatric, rather than in a systematic critique of the university, and that certain of the administrators represented here have written in vague generalities more appropriate to a president's annual report or the position paper of a Senate candidate than to a serious scholar's essay. Both public and private universities...