Word: dualism
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...title, Savage/Love, suggests the play's dualism; two words, joined and separated by the slash, are flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...
...place." The great leaders leave a legacy that their successors must protect. Peters and Waterman conclude that "the real role of the chief executive is to manage the values of the organization." The authors draw heavily upon Social Scientist Ernest Becker, who pointed out (in the 1970s) the essential "dualism" of people: to want both to be part of a team and be recognized individually. The best companies find ways to satisfy these needs...
...public schools teach the theories of "evolution science," they must also teach the theories of "creation science." But last week Federal Judge William Overton had little trouble determining that something constitutionally improper was going on under that surface. "The two-model approach of the creationists is simply a contrived dualism," wrote the judge. Creation science "is not science because it depends upon supernatural intervention, which is not guided by natural law." And since it is not science, "the conclusion is inescapable that the only real effect of [the law] is the advancement of religion...
Stockwell argues that the agency should have stayed out of Angola altogether or moved in much more forcefully in the beginning. Eventually, he says, a "dualism" about the operation developed: "The people in the field were going all out. But back home, people gradually got timid." When the agency finally decided to pull out, it sent a final payment of $1,376,700 in conscience money to Roberto and Savimbi through Kinshasa. The cash, Stockwell claims, was pocketed by Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko...
...THIS DUALISM within activity, a dualism between the forced and the unforced, the tedious and the creative, the unpleasant and the enjoyable, is an artificial one. It is a consequence of the development of a system of highly differentiated labor found only in modern western societies. In fact, all activity can be an enjoyable expression of human creativity, and all activity can develop and increase the range of that creativity. The dichotomy between the eight hours of the day we spend working, and the following hours we spend recuperating and pursuing our own inclinations, must itself be challenged if culture...