Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place as, say, Fall River. The old South exists solely in the mind and its juxtaposition with present-day Birmingham jars as awkwardly as the idea of putting a city with the Hellenic name of Athens in the middle of Georgia. The Asheville of Thomas Wolfe is a tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong...
...called the "Green Monster," which is a terrible misnomer; every batter who has looked north from home plate at Fenways views the "Monster" as the best friend he could ever have, a good buddy who turns pop ups into runs batted in. The Green Monster is a tourist trap...
...Will the society allow itself to fall into the trap of intellectual structures?" Miller asks. "These intellectuals are supposedly representing the masses of Black people, and of Black Christians specifically. Particularly, the Gospel must be translated and actualized." To Miller, the actualization of the Gospel means a radical transformation of society. The Seymour Society as a whole is not as radical as Miller, though some members find their scriptural studies leading them toward the conclusion that the realization of Christian principles will necessitate a revolution. While the society encompasses many social and economic viewpoints, the members hold in common ideals...
Besides vindicating non-table manners, Rudofsky-assisted by Cooper-Hewitt's Lucy Fellowes-assembles a widely (some would say wildly) eclectic domestic history. In one display he indicts chairs as uncomfortable and unhealthy, particularly the infant high chair ("a vicious, sado-pedagogic trap, as humiliating to a child as a leash is to a dog"). Elsewhere, he charts the sly history of the swing, which he describes in his book as "a pale copy of a onetime bold device for generating violent motion and emotion" of a sexual nature, mostly in women. He suggests that all forms of "bobbing...
...lest anyone fall into the trap of stereotyping the hulking Durgin and his mates as lunks, consider that the Crimson offense has seven--count 'em--blocking systems, each with manifold variations. Because of the line's experience, it has worked out a solid means of communication, Durgin says. The Multiflex entails various stunts, Durgin explains. For instance, he adds, the line has become particularly effective on "you-calls." He then realizes the futility of explaining the Multiflex to an outsider, and simplifies. "You make adjustments...