Word: voguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Living in the future places quite a burden on language. For some years intellectuals have sought a vocabulary to describe a society that has, in its own mind, passed outside familiar landmarks into unexplored realities. For a time, as the quarterly the Public Interest observes, the voguish literary modifier was "beyond"-beyond tragedy, beyond ideology, beyond capitalism...