Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interest in Israel and loyalty to the "alien" Jewish religion were severely punished by Stalin, who sent hundreds of Jewish artists and intellectuals to jail and killed many others. Under Khrushchev, anti-Semitism seemed to abate. While there are now no Jews in the eleven-member Party Presidium, there are prominent Jewish officers in the army, and many Russian space scientists are Jews. In recent years Khrushchev's regime has permitted limited publication of works by famed Jewish Writer Sholom Aleichem, allowed Jewish theatrical and variety troupes to be formed. Three months ago, the Kremlin for the first time...
...foil invasions of the earth that may well start from space. The invaders most to be feared will not be little green Venusians riding in flying saucers or any of the other intelligent monsters imagined by science fictioneers. Less spectacular but more insidious, the invaders may be alien microorganisms riding unnoticed on homebound, earth-built spacecraft. If they can thrive and multiply on terrestrial organic matter, it is probable that no earthly creature, including man, will be safe from their attack...
...shiftover called for many skills alien to the old airframe makers. Each successive generation of planes relied more heavily on electronics-a science pioneered by such ground-based giants as A.T. & T., General Electric Co. and RCA. And with the advent of missiles, where guidance and propulsion are more important than the "tin can," the planemakers found themselves losing more and more defense dollars to previously ground-bound companies that did not know a vertical stabilizer from a hole in the wall but were expert in automatic control systems or chemical fuels...
Much more relevant to this century is the antinomian facet of Gordon's thought, which Leifer rejects as being alien to the Jewish tradition. Maybe that's why I like it (some of my best friends work for Mosaic, don't forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber...
WHEN David Riesman quit medicine for the law, a superb clinician moved to a rather alien field. It is this image of Riesman that remains after all the criticisms of this book--a man who is, for all the lapses in reasoning and method this volume suggest, astonishingly perceptive of the disquiet that troubles American intellectuals. Perhaps Riesman will be of more interest to intellectual historians than sociologists of the future, but to either group he has an immediate message about his world that must not be obscured by the real but almost irrelevant lapses in his methods and definitions