Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sartre's Critique have still not appeared. A series of selections from the Critique are translated in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. It is alternately almost entirely unintelligible and utterly lucid. Speaking of alientation, Sartre will describe beautifully the working day of a factory girl and the alien external rhythm that her machince forces upon...
With respect to this rhythm, which was so alien to the girl's vital personal rhythms that during the first few days it seemed unendurable: she wanted to adapt herself to it, she made an effort, followed her friend's advice, Invented a personal relation of interiority valid for herself alone ... To do this, is it entirely obvious that she gave herself to the machine ... Ultimately, the total adaptation to semi-automatism is the destruction of the girl's organic rhythms, and the interiorization of a rhythm which is absolutely other...
Back in Dog patch. As an alien, he found jobs hard to get. He worked as a male nurse in a lead mine. He tutored the daughters of French engineers on the side. To stimulate their interest in Latin, it occurred to him to translate Winnie the Pooh for use as a text. But he decided that paradise must be better than this, and he moved on and out. Wangling a license as a practicing pharmacist, he settled in the village he calls Donna Irma, in the coffee-growing uplands of southern Brazil...
...answer is that students are now investigating their own campuses for specific abuses and then working to erase them. In so doing, they are straying beyond the traditionally limited horizons of American students into new and alien territory. They are applying civil rights principles to their own campuses--attacking both racial and religious discrimination. They are investigating issues like faculty salaries and tenure and the use of alumni money. And they are working closely with the faculty in a new coalition of interests which holds great promise for the future. In all, the activities are so varied it almost seems...
Sick Man of Europe. The torch of Islamic empire-building passed in time from Arab to Seljuk to Mongol to Ottoman Turk. All the while, Islam was intellectually withdrawing from engagement with alien thought, under the influence of the mystical Sufis, and the orthodox ulama (scholars) who saw all wisdom in the Koran and Moslem tradition. By the 19th century, Islam was enfeebled in body as well as spirit; lands once ruled by Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent became European protectorates; Turkey, resident of the impotent caliphs, was the "sick man of Europe...