Word: zeitgeists
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Shaking off years of lethargy, the German economy is showing the first signs of a turnaround. Can the national zeitgeist keep...
When Wei Hui wrote Shanghai Baby in 1999, she launched not just a book but a genre: confessional, and often sexually charged, works of fiction and nonfiction by young, neophyte women trying to capture the Zeitgeist of hard and fast living in a roller-coaster China. The latest to let it all hang out is teenage iconoclast Chun Sue's Beijing Doll. This semiautobiographical novel, first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author...
...like the idea that it was all my idea, though the truth is, it was zeitgeist. It was a group of women that fiction hadn't caught up with...
...years later, many of From's battles have been won--even within the most leeward precincts of the Democratic Party--and others have been supplanted by new concerns. The biggest new concern is the presidency of George W. Bush, which has united Democrats across the spectrum and changed the zeitgeist of the party. The internecine battles of the past, however entertaining, have been put aside (for the moment) by all Democratic factions except Al From and the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry...
...years later, many of From's battles have been won-even within the most leeward precincts of the Democratic Party-and others have been supplanted by new concerns. The biggest new concern is the presidency of George W. Bush, which has united Democrats across the spectrum and changed the zeitgeist of the party. The internecine battles of the past, however entertaining, have been put aside (for the moment) by all Democratic factions except Al From and the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry...