Word: zeitgest
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...search queries every year, a treasure trove of data that is still the best window into what people are investigating on the Web. As the year winds down, Google combs through those searches, identifying the top trends and consolidating them into an annual list meant to capture the U.S. zeitgest...
...presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the preemptive sneer of bad irony didn’t have a place,” says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more than the people who announced its demise. Initial shock meant parody was paralyzed, but only temporarily...
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