Word: transients
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Rove has not given up on his dream of a durable Republican majority, calling last week's loss a "transient, passing thing...
...root for their football teams, ignoring the local favorites. Career operatives who clear out every two years to work on campaigns just register to vote wherever they wind up living in November - the better to help ensure victory for the boss. For a company town, Washington is still pretty transient...
...began his Projects for Extraterrestrials, artworks designed to be large and loud enough to communicate with outer space. Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, for example, laid a trail of fire more than six miles beyond the wall's western terminus. Another project, Transient Rainbow, celebrated the Museum of Modern Art's temporary relocation from Manhattan to Queens with a seven-color arc of fireworks over New York City's East River...
...over it. Isn't the whole point of literature to transcend its moment--not to get mired in the transient woes of a particular generation? "Let's not forget that the voice of a generation does not equal the best writer of a generation," Ellis points out with admirable perspective. "And the best novels of my generation are not generational novels. The Corrections, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Fortress of Solitude ... they can't really be classified as that." Listen for the singular voice of the current generation, and you'll hear something else, something different: multiple voices...
...What is, then, the motive for the rush to heighten the situation and create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests - however transient, domestic and short-sighted - in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice...