Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporation in America is in a mad race to produce more and more with less and less labor. Their plans for expansion are staggering, and every one of them calls for more and more pushbutton operations with machines to push buttons, if you please-even eliminating the human element there. Automation is rapidly becoming a curse to our society...
Death today is uncommon, occurring in isolation from generally one of two causes--accidents, or what we consider some kind of probability error, an unlucky break which leaves the victim with incurable cancer. Although no American expects to live forever, an element of fatalistic thinking which marked men's attitudes in the past has disappeared in America. The inevitability of death is underplayed; however, this may be part of a larger attitude toward disbelief in the inevitability of anything--we have geared ourselves to a rapidly changing, technological en-environment in which literally any-can happen...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...does interfere with individual freedom. I went on to say that the opinion of Justice Clark for the court in the Bible-reading cases was open to question to the extent that it laid down that there could be "an establishment clause invasion of individual religious interests without any element of compulsion...
What TIME attributed to me was a statement to the effect that the opinion of the court failed to explain how governmental participation in religious affairs could be unconstitutional "without any element of compulsion." What I was getting at was that the individual would be hard put to maintain that his constitutional rights had been invaded unless there was an element of compulsion (which, as a matter of fact, was probably present in both cases...