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Adapting this idea of horizon, Lonergan makes it part of his theory of knowledge. A man can alter his horizon by recognizing it as a limitation on his ability to know - indeed, as a limitation on the very questions that he must ask in order to know. He can open himself to information from out side his horizon, use that information to formulate new questions, and continue to grow. By thus transcending his limitations, a man undergoes "conversion," which may be moral, intellectual, social or religious. In Lonergan's approach to theology, which he will spell out in detail...
...short, the structure of the play glosses over the basic problem in the material-how to put egomania on the stage. Rolfe obviously could emphathize only with his own person or with projections of his personality (the young alter ego George Arthur Rose and the Bishop of Caerleon). The other characters in his fantasy pageant fit into stereotypes of melodrama. Tocqueville was not the last egotist to structure a world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian...
...freelance woman writer to do the Women's Liberation cover story. Osborn Elliott, Newsweek's editor in chief, said that most of his researchers are women because of a "newsmagazine tradition going back almost 50 years." He was quick to add, however, that he was not unwilling to alter tradition...
Like other anxiety states, stage fright triggers defense mechanisms, but they ultimately fail because the fear "enlarges with the passage of time; the defense cannot alter the fixed moment of the performance." That failure induces a second-phase symptom: "the delusion that the audience is convening for an occasion of devastating ridicule and humiliation for the performer. This delusion is frankly paranoiac...
Unless the coalition negotiations unexpectedly collapse, in a matter of weeks Austria will become Western Europe's fifth Socialist-led government (following England, West Germany, Sweden and Finland). Kreisky will not alter his country's permanent military neutrality or encourage a further nationalization of Austria's industry, already largely state-owned. He has promised to seek associate membership in the Common Market, introduce scientific analysis and economic planning in government, and modernize Austria's antiquated school system...