Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The overemphasis on youth in the 1960s was also part of the social dislocations of the time. If anything aroused generational solidarity, it was the Viet Nam War. To many observers, youth's almost unanimous opposition to the war made all young people seem alike. They appeared to speak...
The guru's teachings as a whole stress immediate experience, avoiding abstraction to the greatest possibly degree. Much of the appeal of the guru's movement is based upon the follower's ability to summon the light at will. "The light is something I can't deny," one devotee said...
ITEM: Pollution. The use of "improved" chemicals exacts a usurious price. Clothes are more immaculate, but rivers are dirtier. Insecticides help fruit to ripen undisturbed, but as insects die, so do birds and fish and mammals. Preservatives give packaged food a longer shelf life, but they may also cause disease...
KRISTOL IS RIGHT, perhaps, in saying that we probably cannot survive without a revival of the republican virtues on which the founding fathers predicated our system of government. Yet, while the acceptance of the virtues of an "organic moral order" is a fine ideal, it is clearly inapplicable to American...
POUND is dead. Picasso is dead. Brakhage is alive and healthy in Hunt Hall tonight. He will show films made within the past two years including The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, The Riddle of Lumen, The Myth of Phos, and his Sexual Meditation series. An involving...