Shortly after Reagan left the White House, the influential evangelical intellectual Carl Henry blasted Reagan for having "given little more than lip service" to the concerns of conservative Christians.
Indeed, what is most arresting about "Up Is Up" is not its discovery of any individual genius but its invocation of an electrifying social energy that helped blast out an intellectual space for then- transgressive" female and gay writhen- transgressive
Like a multivitamin pill, a good short story can provide a compressed blast of discerning, intellectual pleasure, one no less intense than that delivered by a novel, despite the shorter duration of its consumption.
But for anyone deeply interested in these issues it provides an invigorating blast against received ideas and intellectual complacency.
Conservative policy institutes armed the party's candidates with intellectual arguments, while the conservative media barrage blasted a way through to high office for even the most lackluster Republican nominees.
Do what you've always done: get the cheat codes, boost yourself to level 49 with three health packs at all times and blast the zombies of a rich intellectual inner life with the laser-bazooka of cheap factoids.
Again and again over the years, conservative policy institutes have armed the party's candidates with intellectual arguments, while the conservative media barrage has blasted a way through to high office for even the most lackluster Republican nominees.
By Emily Nussbaum Masters and Johnson, who were intellectual partners and lovers, produced a best-selling study that blasted through medical prudery.
The heart that might have warned him had been silenced too long, suppressed by intellectual vanity energized by destructive impulses left to ferment in the unconscious until the blast at Jornada del Muerto.
