Word: dialecticism
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In exposing contradiction, the intellectual limitations of the direct cinema style are stifling to all but the simplest ideas. Don't Look Back never gets us [pat one man's faltering sales pitch. The unreconstructed reality of direct cinema can give us only those dialectic contradictions observable from a single...
In an odd way society is locked in an ancient dialectic. Western civilization would not have had the energy to develop as it did, wrote Denis de Rougemont, "without the sexual discipline which the so-called puritanical tendencies have imposed upon us since Europe first existed. On the other hand...
DAY after day the campus spectacle repeats itself: professors and deans evicted or held hostage, windows shattered, students struggling with police, offices rifled, even rifles carried by grim militants. The protesters talk, preach or scream about the university's Government connections, the percentage of black students, faculty selection, admission...
THE PROGRAM notes accompanying the two one-act plays that opened at the Loeb last night sounded forbiddingly self-serious. "Because of certain ideological predilections on the part of the director," one section read, "much of the technical work not listed was done by the cast." My god, I thought...
The fedayeen nonetheless succeeded in their purpose of inciting the Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of...