kaleidic

[Stephen Goranson]

I don't recall reading the word "kaleidic" before today, in a book review

http://www.slate.com/id/2167993/nav/ais/

Shackle argued that we live in a "kaleidic society, interspersing its
moments or
intervals of order, assurance and beauty with sudden disintegration and a
cascade into a new pattern."

It's apparently not in OED. I'm not urging that it should be. I'm not even
decided whether I like its usage in this setting.  Just mentioning. Google
gives more hits than I would have guessed, about 2,720.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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