Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phenomenology holds in common with linguistic philosophy an analysis of meaning, it shares with existentialism the theory that our acts determine, or constitute, our ego. "This same element of ego-constitution recurs in all the existentialists," Follesdal said, "although for Kierkegaard, the ego-determining effects of our acts appear to be more abiding than for Husserl; for Sartre, they appear to be less abiding...
There is an element of timeliness in their revolution. Rarely before has a collection of serious writers experimented with the novel at precisely the time when the novel stands in need of revision. The Neo-Realists are in full rebellion against the weighty social comment, the accumulated enunciations of "eternal verities," the resounding statements about love and death and human commitment which, over recent decades, have been used to make the traditional novel seem more meaningful...
...effect of education is "to make you unhappy," Demos said: and "unless you have suffered, you have not had a good education." In achieving an identity of his own, the college student often "feels lost and abandoned;" yet with this disturbing element of awakening comes "the excitement of discovering" his individuality...
...surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried in the fork of an artery in the neck, and no bigger than a grain of rice, is an important element in breathing control. Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there is one on each side of the neck...
...land is soon sufficiently irrigated, but the bureaucrats refuse to give up their jobs, and continue irrigating until the entire planet is covered with a few feet of water. "The element which should have been mastered," writes Len, "simply mastered them. Yet no one was prepared to admit it, and the next inevitable step was to declare that everything was as it should be." People struggle through the streets with their heads barely above water; anyone who complains or even gurgles too loudly is thrown into prison...