Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's... high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then came his little acknowledgment: He asked for a drink at the kitchen door,... An errand he may have had to invent, But it made my property mine once more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thomas Carlyle is incontestably dead at last, by the acknowledgment of all newspapers. I had, however, the pleasure of an intimate... intercourse with him when he was an infinitely deader man than he is now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtue--one... given and received in entire disinterestedness--since neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, not the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Faith and religion, of course, are not one and the same. The distinction between the two is similar to the distinction between wha...t is sometimes referred to as the soul and body of an experience. The soul is the invisible part, rooted in the mind, will, and feelings. The body of the experience is the outward expression of its soul. It is the putting into action of an idea, conviction, hope or desire. Faith, then, is like the soul of an experience. It is an inner acknowledgment of the relationship between God and man. Religion, on the other hand, is like the body. It is an outer expression of that inner acknowledgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The skill of acknowledgment applies to feelings--not to misbehavior. When a child is using the living-room wall as a mural for his... Magic Markers, empathy is not in order--clear limits are. This is not the time to say, "You wish you could use Magic Marker on the walls." This is the time to state firmly, "Markers are to be used only on paper."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their manners, speech, dress, friendships,--the freshness and candor of their physiognomy--the picturesque looseness of their carr...iage--their deathless attachment to freedom--their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean--the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states--the fierceness of their roused resentment--their curiosity and welcome of novelty--their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy--their susceptibility to a slight--the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors--the fluency of their speech--their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul--their good temper and open-handedness--the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him--these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »