Theyism, Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms.

Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms. By MARK BINELLI Companies are making plans to put droves of departed idols on tour — reanimating a live-music industry whose biggest earners will soon be dying off.

每日一詞：Theyism，他們主義。如果用一個詞來形容當下美國的政見趨勢，時報專欄作者大衛·布魯克斯認為會是“他們主義”(theyism)，即政客們各自站在不同角度，向我們闡述一些代表著精英的“他們”正在摧毀我們所有人的生活。他在《 伯尼·桑德斯謬誤 》一文中這樣描述這個現象：特朗普所代表的是文化上的“他們主義”，沿海城市的文化精英們憎恨真正的美國人，破壞了價值觀，還開放了邊境；伯尼·桑德斯代表的則是階級上的“他們主義”，億萬富翁操控經濟來使自己受益，而其他所有人則陷入貧困。

2017年10月28日 星期六

mollify, purge, mischaracterized, array. hologram, expurgation

Trump Administration Sends Congress List of Possible Russia Sanctions

By NICHOLAS FANDOS and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

The list appeared to be an effort to mollify critics, including Senator John McCain of Arizona, who have criticized delays in imposing new sanctions.

Oscar Wilde

"I'm sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. French songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, or laugh, which is worse. But German sounds a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so."
--Lady Bracknell from "The Importance of Being Earnest" (I.132)

The London Journal was but one of various journals written by Boswell, now gathered into a number of published volumes, but it is the only one whose material had not undergone extensive familial expurgation in the 19th century, and so it retained the racy material that made the London Journal an astonishing best seller on its publication.

'A Hologram for the King'

By DAVE EGGERS
Reviewed by PICO IYER

In his new novel, a parable of America in the global economy, Dave Eggers shows some of the range and serious engagement with American ideals that characterized the work of Norman Mailer.

 

 

Egypt Purges Mubarak-Era Police Officers

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Egypt's transitional military government announced the early retirement of more than 600 senior police officers Wednesday in an effort to mollify thousands of protesters.

Book Challenges Obama on Mother's Deathbed Fight

By KEVIN SACK

The book suggests that the president mischaracterized a central anecdote about Ann Dunham's deathbed dispute with her insurance company.

The Impressionism that dominated the pictorial art of the later years of the nineteenth century was largely a modified and very delicate imitation. Breaking with conventions as to how things are supposed to be—conventions mainly based not on seeing but on knowing or imagining—the Impressionist insists on purging his vision from knowledge, and representing things not as they are but as they really look. He imitates Nature not as a whole, but as she presents herself to his eyes. It was a most needful and valuable purgation, since painting is the art proper of the eye. But, when the new effects of the world as simply seen, the new material of light and shadow and tone, had been to some extent—never completely—mastered, there was inevitable reaction. Up sprang Post- Impressionists and Futurists. They will not gladly be classed together, but both have this in common—they are Expressionists, not Impressionists, not Imitators.

Modern life is not simple—cannot be simple—ought not to be; it is not for nothing that we are heirs to the ages. Therefore the art that utters and expresses our emotion towards modern life cannot be simple; and, moreover, it must before all things embody not only that living tangle which is felt by the Futurists as so real, but it must purge and order it, by complexities of tone and rhythm hitherto unattempted. One art, beyond all others, has blossomed into real, spontaneous, un233conscious life to-day, and that is Music; the other arts stand round arrayed, half paralyzed, with drooping, empty hands. The nineteenth century saw vast developments in an art that could express abstract, unlocalized, unpersonified feelings more completely than painting or poetry, the art of Music.

mollify

(mŏl'ə-fī') 
tr.v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies.

1. To calm in temper or feeling; soothe. See synonyms at pacify.
2. To lessen in intensity; temper.
3. To reduce the rigidity of; soften.

[Middle English mollifien, from Old French mollifier, from Late Latin mollificāre : Latin mollis, soft + -ficāre, -fy.]

mollifiable mol'li·fi'a·ble adj.
mollification mol'li·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n.
mollifier mol'li·fi'er n.
mollifyingly mol'li·fy'ing·ly adv.

array[ar・ray]

• 発音記号[əréi]

[動](他)［III[名]（[副]）］

1 ((通例受身))((形式))〈軍隊などを〉配列する, 配置する, （…に対して）陣容を整える((against ...))

array people in a line
人々を1列に並ばせる

The army was arrayed against the enemy.
軍隊は戦闘隊形に配置された.

2 ((通例〜 -selfまたは受身))((文))…を（…で）装う, 盛装する((in ...))

They arrayed themselves ［＝They were arrayed］ in beautiful clothes.
彼らは盛装した.

3 《法律》〈人の〉名前を（陪審員候補者名簿に）登載する.

━━[名]

1 [U][C]（戦闘態勢への軍隊の）配置, 配列, 隊形；[U]軍隊

a martial array
戦列

in battle array
戦闘隊形をとった

set the troops in array
軍隊を配置する.

2 （…の）列挙, 一続き, ずらりと並んだもの((of ...))

an imposing array of art objects
圧倒的な芸術品の列

There was an array of bottles on the sideboard.
食器だなにはびんがずらりと並んでいた.

3 （ユニット機器の）配列.

4 [U]((文))衣装, 美装

bridal array
花嫁支度.

5 [U]陪審員候補者名簿；陪審員候補者全員.

6 《数学・統計》配列.

7 《天文》干渉計配列.

8 《コンピュータ》アレイ, 配列

array processing
アレイ処理.

purge[purge]

• 発音記号[pə'ːrdʒ]

[動](他)［purge A of B/purge (away) B from A］

1 …を清める, 浄化する, 〈A（人・心・物）からB（不純な物・事）を〉除く, 解き放つ, 〈AからB（疑惑など）を〉除く

purge one's conscience
良心を清める

He was purged of all suspicion.
彼への疑いがすべて晴れた.

2 〈A（国・政党・宗派など）からB（人）を〉追放する, パージする

purge the party of radicals ［＝purge radicals from the party］
党から過激分子を追放する.

3 〈A（腸）に下剤をかけてB（異物）を〉除く.

━━(自)

1 清浄になる, 浄化される.

2 通じがつく；下剤をかける.

━━[名]

1 浄化.

2 （不純分子の）追放, 粛正, パージ

conduct a purge of Communists
赤狩りをする.

3 ((古風))下剤.

púrg・er

[名]追放者.

purgation[pur・ga・tion]

• 発音記号[pəːrgéiʃən]

[名][U]

1 清めること, 浄化；浄罪；粛清.

2 （下剤で）便通をつけること.

expurgate

Syllabification: (ex·pur·gate)

Pronunciation: /ˈekspərˌgāt/

Translate expurgate | into Italian

verb

[with object] (often as adjective expurgated)

• remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account):the expurgated Arabian Nights

Derivatives

expurgation

Pronunciation: /ˌekspərˈgāSHən/

noun

expurgator

noun

expurgatory

Pronunciation: /ikˈspərgəˌtôrē/

adjective

Origin:

early 17th century (in the sense 'purge of excrement'): from Latin expurgat- 'thoroughly cleansed', from the verb expurgare, from ex- 'out' + purgare 'cleanse'

hologram[ho・lo・gram]

• 発音記号[hɑ'ləgræ`m | hɔ'l-]

[名]《光学》ホログラム：holographyで作られた立体像.

characterize, ((英))-ise[char・ac・ter・ize, ((英))-ise]

• 発音記号[kǽriktəràiz]

[動](他)

1 ［V[名]as ［to be］[形]［[名]］］〈人・物を〉（…であると）述べる, 描く, みなす

characterize him as childish
彼を子供じみているとみなす.

2 …を特徴［特色］づける

His personality is characterized by patience.
忍耐強さが彼の特徴だ.

chár・ac・ter・ìz・er

[名]