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...several historians at Columbia and Harvard have noted over the past years--before Gorbachev's rise became apparent--this decade offers major opportunities for change in U.S. Soviet relations because for the first time the Soviet leadership is not stained by the hyper-paranoia of the Stalin period...
...been some sensitization to the fact that the world is impermanent. This awareness of impermanence today is more clear than in say 1980 or 1940. World War I changed all of the intelligent people's view of the safety of the world because, in the midst of a purely hyper-rationalist enlightenment, they saw supposedly enlightened, creatures turning into beasts and killing each other...
...enormous amount. Many word sociologists like McClure and Pound say that when words get separated from direct conversation when they are just on the page without the physical component of sound, then the head gets cut off from the bod. And people will tend to go into generalizations and hyper-abstraction of the language. Words have to refer to something real, and when we begin to take words as having eternal abstract essence without any physical reference, the human content is removed from the language. As Pound points out, when the words in poetry get cut off from the song...
...automatic replication of poetry, film and television. All of these things can happen under a communist bureaucracy or a capitalist bureaucracy. Disasters can result like Mao's great leap forward where millions starved or Union Carbide's Bhopal where hundreds of thousands were injured. When a society's hyper-mechanization moves out of the people's notice they suffer from depersonalization...
Another sophomore echoed these sentiments. "I advocate their recruiting people from families who wouldn't normally push Harvard," she said, adding "and if you can make generalizations, most Orientals are hyper-aware of Harvard, anyway...