Word: interactionalism
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...them, Stalin maintains, "interact upon one another" to produce the "objective" (or automatic) conditions for revolution. Thus, says Stalin, a revolution is ripe when the following four situations have resulted from the seething of the contradictions: 1) the proletariat doesn't like the old system any more; 2) the upper classes can't keep going under the old way - it just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree...
...fancy about it, and nothing notably original; its beauty rests on its simple and impassioned use of basic principles which most studios have abandoned or emasculated. It is devoted to that fundamental of movie reality: picturing the way that places and things and people really look and act and interact, and making the information eloquent...
...Princeton, 15 years later, Dr. Dirac, who had forecast a particle, theorized about what happens when one particle strikes another. He selected the two simplest: the electron and the photon (unit of electromagnetic radiation, such as light). To explain how they interact, he ploughed through relativistic bafflements, covered a blackboard with lacy mathematics. Many listeners looked as if they had been hit on the head. Dirac himself seemed unsure...
...which most U.S. and British citizens imagine they still live) is being replaced by "mass democracy." Mass democracy is distinguished by overwhelming popularity and prestige of the chief executive (Roosevelt, Churchill); by the growing weakness of Congress or Parliament; by a tendency of the executive and the masses to interact directly via radio and straw polls over the heads of electoral bodies...
...jungle, like a body, is a complex organism constructed of many parts which interact, which can be grouped and are yet dependent upon one another just as the skeleton, the nervous system, the blood . . . and other systems are in an animal. A bit of jungle breathes and grows and reproduces itself like a great animal." This is the thesis of Ivan T. Sanderson's new book, Living Treasure (Viking...