Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write the authors. "They rarely trouble to keep scores, little significance is attached to who wins or loses, they do not require the stimulus of prizes, it does not seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Indeed, children like games in which there is a sizable element of luck, so that individual abilities cannot be directly compared. They like games which restart almost automatically, so that everybody is given a new chance. They like games which move in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, the determining of which side...
Tito had the choice of alienating the nation's young people or the conservative element in the government. He knew that in the long run, the youth would have to be pacified for the country to remain intact and progressive. "Undogmatic socialism" is what the Yugoslavs are fond of calling...
...symptomatic of a reactionary element in America, young and old. How much it will be fed by public reaction to radical leftist violence remains to be seen, but the potential is there and it is dangerous...
...Daphne was expelled from the state and national funeral directors associations for advertising his low-cost funerals. He was readmitted in 1968 only after a federal antitrust suit charged the national association with unethical practices. There may have been an element of jealousy in the expulsion: Daphne's three branches do more business than any other mortuary in the Bay Area. But morticians generally believe that death should be not only proud but beyond price...