Word: fermented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem curiously unwilling to subject their beliefs to empirical tests. The field I know is a normal academic cross-section, containing the variously brilliant, troubled, foolish, generous, devoted, opportunistic, self-righteous, insecure, hypocritical, self-examining, bigoted, humane, confused, courageous, narrow, fiery, and kind. The field is in a creative ferment, and the meaning which its workers find in it is as various as their own backgrounds, imaginations, and moral visions make it. There are Marxist sociobiologists, as well as feminist, religious, liberal, anarchist, and conservative sociobiologists. Certainly, in the fullness of time it is not impossible for sociobiology to produce...
...More ferment in fuel...
...President's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, calls the next three months "a serious time." What has been in ferment since May, believes Caddell, will be hardened by the timetable of political primaries and inflation, which he believes "mocks the sense of the future of the people...
That is true, as far as it goes. But Carter is convinced, as are U.S. allies in Western Europe, that unless the Palestinians can be persuaded to participate in the autonomy plan, the whole fragile goal of a wider Middle East peace is in jeopardy. All the ferment in the Middle East, Israel's uneasiness, Arab efforts to influence events in new forms, are part of that difficult, unsettling, but necessary process...
...proletariat is drawn to ... strong, bright and clear forms, to what is complete and has definite meaning." This was probably meant to encourage agitprop poster design. The artists, however, took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk art and dialectical materialism, the artists got more from looking at Lenin's works than he did from theirs. "I do not understand them," Lenin complained...