Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violence in the subways is an up-to-the-minute topic for the enterprising young novelist, and in skilled hands could certainly be transformed into a recognizable allegory for the tensions that haunt the urbanized world. But to turn such an allegory simultaneously into a surrealistic re-enactment of Christ's Passion, as Novelist Blechman has done, will strike many readers as blasphemy. The novel is also perverse, obscure, flagrantly obscene. It is thus sure to arouse revulsion-but those with strong stomachs may find it fascinating at the same time. For it is redeemed by a white...
...Senator races breathlessly through his 171-page narrative, treating every possible political topic--from foreign aid to mental health--and capping each rhetorical flourish with a crescendo of statistics: "Exports now account for 4 per cent of our gross national product. The six countries of the European Common Market export 12 per cent of theirs--three times our rate. Other countries do better." Rarely does he stop to elaborate the data, to consider for example the obvious fact that not all countries need export the same percentage of their output...
...said that "freedom of speech" might be his topic at the Library Dedication, and that "If anything, I'm going to ask him (Galbraith) to defend my freedom of speech as vigorously as his own." Lee insisted that F.C.C. "harrassment" has caused local television stations to deny him paid T-V air-time...
...Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...
Much discussion ranged about the topic of whether poetry should be an art form or a social commentary. Donoghue noted that poets are notoriously inept when tackling politics. He cited T.S. Eliot's politics, which were "grotesque...