Word: truisms
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...power, as the truism goes, has its limits. In the concentric worlds that comprise modern New York, a character like Sherman McCoy is impotent should he venture beyond the insularity of chauffeur-driven cars and prepschool networks. Away from Wall Street, McCoy's life becomes the grist for other New York types, each one consumed by a drive for power. The gallery that Wolfe presents is compelling and yet predictable--his types are compiled from the people profiled in New York Magazine, Manhattan, Inc. and page six of the New York Post...
Ever since the movie industry ceded to TV its place as the American family art form, Hollywood has believed in this truism: the basic unit of movie audiences is the dating couple; the woman usually chooses the movie, and the successful picture will be the one she wants to take her man to see. Even in the '80s. Especially in the late '80s, a time of retrenchment along the sexual front lines. Pandemic viruses are imposing a puritan morality on the would-be- wild young. Sleeping arrangements are seen as a matter of life and death. Folks on dates...
...course, all rhetorical questions should be quickly responded to before the speaker has time to continue. For instance, if the teacher says '...one must wonder just what is the nature of art and its relationship to life?...' You must quickly jump to action with some obvious truism such as, 'Well, isn't art, in a way, an imitation of life? I mean in a sense isn't it true that in a symbolic sense we can see ourselves in art? You can continue in this vain until someone threatens...
...truism of presidential politics that unless the nation is at war or a candidate is courting the egghead vote, stressing foreign policy is not the road to the White House. But 1988, at first blush, may be an exception. Perhaps it is because this is the one arena where the candidates are not frightened of Reagan's shadow. The voters seem interested as well, peppering the candidates with detailed questions on everything from glasnost to the gulf...
...offended by Kurzman's implications regarding the effects of intercollegiate athletics on the Harvard community. He contrasts the "frivolous" support of the student body for our athletic teams to the "non-frivolous" student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux...