Formalism
Among Emily Post's odder rules for dining etiquette, she advises against putting too much of this spreadable condiment on your corn on the cob while preparing it.
What is butter?
Red Scare Industries is a San Francisco record label specializing in this traditionally political and rebellious form of guitar-driven music.
What is punk rock?
The Official Tournament and Club Word List, often referred to as OWL, is, quite appropriately considered the official reference when holding tournaments for this game in the US and Canada.
What is Scrabble?
One particularly celebrated example of post-modern architecture is the headquarters of this major film and television studio and is sometimes referred to as the "Seven Dwarfs" building for its decorated façade.
What is Disney?
Best known for his short stories popularizing Gothic horror in American 19th-century literature, this Bostonian was also a prolific literary critic, producing works such as the aptly titled "The Poetic Principle."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
One of the first wave of feminism's greatest achievements was the passage of this amendment to the US Constitution which granted suffrage regardless of gender in, fittingly, 1919.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Men are advised to remove their hats only if they are occupying this location in a building which, appropriately, also consists of taking on and then removing people.
What is an elevator?
The Espionage Act of 1917 was meant to censor any sort of written matter "urging treason" and transmitted by mail, awkwardly making this agency head responsible for supervising its enforcement.
What is the US Postmaster?
The CSS Owl was a warship from June 21, 1864 to May 20, 1865 which ran blockades for this North American military power spanning much of the Gulf Coast.
What is the Confederate Army?
One of the most cited works of post-modern film is this violent and non-linear 1994 movie of gangsters and robbers directed by Quinten Tarantino and starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in leading roles.
What is Pulp Fiction?
Who is Bertha?
In addition to critically acclaimed works such as episodes of The Killing and the Academy Award winning Monster, director Patty Jenkins is best known at this point for her pair of films highlighting this lasso-wielding fictional feminist powerhouse.
Who is Wonder Woman?
One of the main differences between a formal and informal place setting is based upon whether the fork is or is not resting on this other part of the table setting near the plate.
What is a napkin?
One of the catalyzing events for anti-Communist sentiment in the 20th century was the September 2, 1920 bombing of this part of Manhattan symbolic of capitalist resources and practices, although it remains officially unsolved to this day.
What is Wall Street?
The fraternal Order of Owls, a secret society founded in Indiana in 1904, had a friendly rivalry with the Order of Hoo-Hoo which, despite its name, had this fearsome predator of birds featured on its logo.
What is a cat?
Some music critics cite this best-selling music act of all time (with about 600 million units worldwide) as popularizing post-modern rock with their groundbreaking psychedelic albums of the 1960s.
Who are The Beatles?
Feminist literary critic Helene Cixous named her most famous scholarly work after this mythological goddess who threatened to turn male Greek heroes to stone through her appearance when they battled her.
Who is Medusa?
Octavia Butler is widely credited with bringing a literary feminist voice to this infrequently associated genre of fictional writing with her stories Xeogenesis, Patternmaster, and Bloodchild and Other Stories.
What is science fiction?
The phrase RSVP is an acronym for the French command " Répondez s'il vous plaît," roughly translating to this in English.
What is "Please respond"?
One of the driving forces in investigating potential Communist infiltration was this secretive government intelligence service which had only just been formed in 1947 by President Truman.
What is the CIA?
The Owl Club, an exclusive all-male club at this Ivy League university in Cambridge, Mass., can count among its members former Senator Ted Kennedy and the grandson of Teddy Roosevelt among its membership rolls.
What is Harvard?
Alan Sokal gained fame and notoriety when he was able to sneak an article of general non-sense about quantum physics into an issue of the academic journal Social Text, ridiculing the journal's ignorance of this important step in the scholarly publishing process.
What is peer review?
This celebrated Nigeran novelist often called "the father of Africa literature" is arguably also a father of post-colonial criticism as he authored Colonialist Criticism, a foundational work in the field.
Who is Chinua Achebe?
Besides coining the term "feminism," French philosopher Charles Fourier is well known for his socialist "intentional communities," including this city founded upon his ideas in Ohio with this name literally meaning "good place" in Greek.
What is Utopia?
A very outdated rule is that men ought to always escort women on their left so that the man's right hand is easily ready to draw this weapon if danger were to approach.
What is a sword?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and later executed based on espionage charges which mainly focused on their transmission of secrets about this type of technology to the USSR.
What is nuclear energy/nuclear weapons?
The Night Owl Amtrak train route between Boston and this fitting city can count both President Biden and former Senator Arlen Specter among its regular riders from the early 70's to the late 90's.
What is Washington, D.C.?
Joseph Heller is cited as an important post-modern novelist for his 1961 war novel which actually named this problem of circular reasoning present in a phrase like, "How can I get any experience until I get a job that gives me experience?"
What is Catch-22?
Brazillian modernist critic José Oswald de Souza Andrade is most celebrated for his "Anthropophagist Manifesto" comparing colonized countries that consume and then re-appropraite a colonizer's culture to this more common term for the action referred to in the article's title.
What is cannibalism?
An offshoot of this angry and aggressive male-dominated musical genre born in the 60s and 70s, riot grrrl was an underground feminist musical movement in the 1990s led by bands like Le Tigre and Bikini Kill.
What is punk/punk rock?