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...with the separation of the wage-earner form the fruits of his labor or the inability of modern man to realize himself through his work activity (alienation). Quite to the contrary, Marx was making his own biased psychological presuppositions when he decided that man could never be a happy cog in the industrial machine, even if he were well-greased. Toffler attributes modern man's problems to natural difficulties in adapting to a highly modernized world far different from the primitive, less-frenetic world that man evolved in. "Just as the body cracks under the strain of environmental overstimulation...
...factories for making matches, textiles and cutlery. A university is planned that will ultimately cost $80 million (though at present only 6% of all Transkeian children reach secondary school). The territory even has a new coat of arms-two leopards, a bull, an ear of corn and a cog wheel representing hoped-for industry...
...evening courses at a Paris hospital in such subjects as tropical medicine, parasitology and treating war wounds. But experience itself is the best tutor-and reward. Said one veteran of Biafra, Beirut, Bangladesh and Peru: "You find yourself really living up to your medical vows, not just being a cog in a machine. You are continually improvising, and when you succeed, you feel you've really accomplished something...
Things looked even bleaker when Crimson playmaker Rick Benvel went down on the court, clutching his knee in pain. His loss would have been costly, because as Coach O'Neil said, "He is the most improved player on the team and a vital cog to our offense...
Forward Hooft paced the Crimson attack with a game-high 19 points. "Bob's the main cog in our machine," Coach O'Neil commented in a post-game interview. "You saw what happened when I took him out with the big lead--he makes the difference...