“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.” PeopleLooksMightWould BeLeftSocialBehindsResponsibilityStepsModernDutyActivityResponsibleStriveNotionRealmsRejectsHierarchyDictionaryBeing ResponsibleRejectingSlackerSocial Hierarchy Author:Richard Linklater
“If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.” IfsWorldViewsModernStageDesignMovedStructurePoint Of ViewRealmsThemePoeticRealismExtensionsRemindersPlaywrightTangibleTheatricalRomanticismPostmodernPictorial Book:Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography Source: Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography
“Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.” WorldNumbersModernStrangeReaderAncientMathGuidesCuriousRealmsFascinatingGeometryMysticLivelyProvocativeModern TimesAncient World Author:Ivars Peterson
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.” WorldMindFactsFeelingsSpiritValuesModernMoralityTreatsRealmsSplitsSecularSubjectiveDualism Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).” ArtPoetryArtistOrderNaturalModernTalentPoetOriginalsRealmsArtificialAspireExploits Author:Franz Grillparzer
“The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.” LiteratureImaginationModernRealmsRoyal Author:Julius Lester
“Modern man has left the realm of the unknown and the mysterious, and has settled down in the realm of the functional. He is turned is back to the world of the foreboding and the exulting and has welcomed the world of boredom.” MenWorldLeftModernMysteriousRealmsBoredomModern ManForeboding Book:Fire from Within Source: Fire from Within