Word: transcendentalized
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Clearly, the administration's motive for concealing the truth about the SALT talks, Angola, and similar situations is its desire to forestall opposition to its policies. Kissinger--still the single most influential figure in foreign affairs--defends his policies and the secrecy surrounding them through an appeal to transcendent "national...
Under these conditions, an avant-garde can hardly be said to exist. The most outrageous or destructive idea or art form becomes accepted overnight. "In fact," writes Bell, the chief characteristic of the Establishment "is its eagerness to repudiate its own existence." The condition of art is echoed in politics...
Naturally, Americans watching the Games will be pulling for Young and Mueller and Hamill. Austrians will be banking on victory from their skiing heroes, and Russians will be cheering on their countrymen. But despite the rivalries and loyalties, the news from Innsbruck will boil down to something as old and...
Throughout Rationale, Legman is concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a...
There is resolution only in more suffering, suicide, and murder. Transcendent, however, is the hope for "a new life"--and this hope is just as gripping as the sordidness that went before it. No Place to be Somebody is something to see.