Word: transcendentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good fun: the oafish, back-country bears who watch the Bongo triangle square itself. Top-drawer Disney: various dreamlike bits of flowing, beautifully planned motion (notably Bongo's love-dream and the climax of his fight); the marvelously oily thrusting and gropings of the magical plant as it grows...
"Let Man Remember. . . ." Consciousness of one's tremendous responsibility in the great evolutionary process was to him the mark of a more highly evolved human being: "Let every man remember that the destiny of mankind is incomparable, and that it depends greatly on his will to collaborate in the...
A genius, according to Webster, is "a man endowed with transcendent ability." Walter G. Bowerman, assistant actuary of the New York Life Insurance Co., is more specific. A typical U.S. genius (male), he says, is 5 ft. 10 inches tall, weighs 175 Ibs., and begets 5.54 children. Actuary Bowerman has...
A. "The transcendent power concentrated in atomic weapons makes politically possible . . . the domination of the world by a single sufficiently large state, provided that state holds the monopoly of atomic weapons. The threat of mutual destruction by atomic weapons of all the states that might possess them, assuming that there...
"The [hero of Brave New World"] is offered . . . life in Utopia, or the [abnormal] life of a primitive .. . insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other. . . . If I were now to rewrite the book, I would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of...