Kipper's Game.The same concept sneaks into Kipper's Game (HarperCollins), Barbara Ehrenreich's new science-fiction novel--a surprising departure from her political writing into spiritual and extraterrestrial realms. One mysterious element in the plot is a game that expands the human mind through the pleasure principal, leading to a higher plane of consciousness. Some critics disdained dis·dain tr.v. dis·dained, dis·dain·ing, dis·dains 1. To regard or treat with haughty contempt; despise. See Synonyms at despise. 2. To consider or reject as beneath oneself. n. it as a loopy, fanciful fan·ci·ful adj. 1. Created in the fancy; unreal: a fanciful story. 2. Tending to indulge in fancy: a fanciful mind. 3. story. But it seems to me exactly the role of the liberal-minded person, in these dark times, to start imagining how to live more abundantly, generously, embracingly--to grow beyond the nasty divisive di·vi·sive adj. Creating dissension or discord. di·vi  sive·ly adv.di·vi rhetoric that's so plentiful plen·ti·ful adj. 1. Existing in great quantity or ample supply. 2. Providing or producing an abundance: a plentiful harvest. now, and think of a way we might all learn to play together. We need to exercise our capacity for hope. |
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