Word: vicos
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...relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...
...three miles this morning and did sit-ups so I could have these," says Edward Edelman, 43, a New York financial consultant, as he dips into a bowlful of raspberries crowned with a snowfall of whipped cream at Vico, an uptown Italian trattoria. In San Francisco, Sterrett Brandt, 30, until recently traffic coordinator at U.S. Recycling Industries, says she wouldn't hesitate to order chocolate tortes or cheesecake when treated to a business lunch. "Since I'm not paying, the calories don't really count," she rationalizes. In Chicago, Donna Needy, 41, a casualty-company exec, begins each weekday with...
Underlying Fuentes' interpretation of Latin America's heritage is Gianbattista Vico's notion that man makes his own history. Time is not a limit to be respected; space is not a set of borders which confine us. On the contrary, space is something we search for and expand into...
...that incorporate advanced computer technology, some of it stolen or copied from Western nations. The Soviets have lagged far behind the West in developing smaller computers that are used in offices and factories. They have been unable to master the precision manufacturing techniques needed to mass-produce computers. Says Vico Henriques, head of the Washington-based Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association: "The Soviets' capability in computer science is probably equal to ours. Just look at the very sophisticated things they're able to do in space. But from a computer manufacturing standpoint, they are nowhere near...
...somehow large quantities of "Baudelaire and Rilke, even Montesquieu and Vico; also Machiavelli; also Plato" still get slathered over everything. The novel does not asphyxiate beneath this icing. But it is certainly not Bellow's best staff...