Word: monstering
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...going in the direction of a civilization dominated by material things and by the machine. This reaction on the part of youth is due not merely to age; it is a reaction of man. ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: In human society, as it has existed for thousands of years, a monster has made its appearance-a monster called science. Whether we like it or not, it is breaking up everything in its path. Science calls into question moral concepts, social structures, beliefs. It is obvious that its forward march cannot be impeded, but it is certain that there will...
...assassinated five years ago this week. Since then, assorted parks, streets and ghetto playgrounds have been named after him. His bespectacled face, ballooned to twice lifesize, gazes owlishly from the walls of innumerable schools and youth clubs. Though he is sometimes described as an apostate and a monster, these days he is more often invoked, especially by young whites and blacks, as a martyr in the cause of brotherhood, and even a kind of saint...
...about." One trouble with the bureau, claims one of its most effective field men, is that it is overstaffed at top levels (there is one BIA employee for every 18 reservation Indians), and it takes three years to get new funds to pave a road. "We have created a monster," he says...
...what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most loving. spontaneous. "together"-we occasionally glimpse into the fourth room, only to be driven back to the third by the everyday, performance-oriented demands and socialization of plastic cultures. Very few have defeated the bogus monster of the ego to reside permanently in the fourth room, and fewer still (only the greatest teachers) can glimpse into the fifth. Anyone who permanently reaches the fifth room loses his corporeal form...
...Frankenstein wasn't put together in a day." it said recently." and it's going to take hockey coach Bill Quakenbush a little while longer to get his monster into circulation...