Word: existentialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that lecture, he said that more scientists in government would make it easier for us to develop from an "existentialist" society into a "future-directed" one. Scientists, who have a sense of the future by virtue of the changing, historical character of their disciplines, can provide an antidote to our "existentialist," present-centered thinking. We are, Snow feels, self-satisfied and unmindful of the starving other two-thirds of the human race. We should make it a goal of our drifting society to feed these people. Such a goal would require planning ahead. Since scientists are more apt to think...
...Rage at existentialist sloth and his plea for a new vision to strive after place Snow near the camps of those calling for national purpose and those who are sad to se the end of ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more serious and more important: a revulsion against the current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity...
...further questioning until after an emergency operation. By the time Adele Mailer had recovered enough to talk to detectives, her husband was in a television studio, taping an interview with Mike Wallace. He did indeed plan to run for mayor of New York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would not be solved by disarming young hoods: "The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see, it's his sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring...
...diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form of psychotherapy for a selfconscious, shame-ridden society...
...orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will be your judge...