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Word: alterable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admits, in The Archaeology of Knowledge, that he's acutely embarrassed by the question of whether this latest work is history or philosophy, and finally decides that it is neither. In the last analysis. Foucault would probably assert that he stands where it is necessary in order to radically alter the shape of our knowledge; that he works not just in the gaps between areas of inquiry but on a level beneath them...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: The Archaeology of Knowledge | 10/27/1972 | See Source »

Drugs provide one of the quickest, easiest ways to withdraw from the ordinary waking state of consciousness. Weil rejects the notion that drug use in our society indicates internal unrest or social canker; he believes instead that "the desire to alter consciousness periodically is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive...

Author: By Sallie Gouverneur, | Title: The Power of Stoned Thinking | 10/18/1972 | See Source »

...ignore Ostpolitik as an issue if they could, and Barzel has made it plain that if he wins, he would not try to reverse Brandt's foreign policy accomplishments. As if to allay any doubts, the opposition leader pledged last week that he did not intend to alter whatever is "legally in force." He even staked a claim for possible Ostpolitiking of his own. "Those in authority in Moscow, Warsaw and East Berlin," he said, "would talk to us if it were in their interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Squaring Off for the Battle of the Decade | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...marijuana. But properly to call a proposal for change a reform presumes several conditions. There must be a deficiency in the present situation requiring a change. The proposed change must eliminate or Finally, the change must accomplish its purpose without introducing new harms. If, for instance, someone proposed to alter the U.S. government by installing a dictator, few would agree to call this change a reform. McGovern's so-called reform proposals must be carefully examined...

Author: By James W. Muller, | Title: McGovern for Demagogue | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...passion in the world," H.G. Wells once observed, "is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." Wells might have been guilty of some hyperbole, but many writers, including some of ours, share his suspicion of editors' passions and pencils. Christopher Porterfield, in planning the cover story on TV Producers Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, skirted the problem. One of the sections he presides over as a senior editor is Show Business & TV. He assigned himself to write the story, then served as his own editor. No one could quarrel with his credentials in either role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

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