Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect as if it were a merit...
...probably no accident that the apostasy rate is higher among Christians than Jews, and among Protestants than Catholics. (Anglicans, incidentally, defect at the rate of one out of every four.) For it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion which claimed so purely cognitive an activity as theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and concentrated on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man has the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most...
...freshman may fall heir to an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Theology is certainly one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Methodist in those ordeals--and for one reason or another, Anglicans defect at the rate of one out of every four. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes...
...much better company, and the celebration of the sexual instincts which they represent borders, at its best, on comic poetry. But this erotic yea-saying degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over-dramatized past the point of exasperation...
...factor in this defect is the "obsessive, fetishistic" commitment of intellectuals to democracy. Democracy is "a procedure, not a policy;" yet in it all our hopes are vested, Buckley said...