Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same phenomenon carries over into their descriptions of LSD highs, except that the distortions become more violent--"anything which is crumpled or quilted comes alive and starts to crawl." Along with this fixation and concentration on objects, LSD users express a greater intellectual appreciation for the "total meaning" of the object. One student explained that with LSD words break down as tools in attempts to describe the sensation. Instead of thinking about things one experiences them. He continued to explain that this was why it was difficult to translate what insight had been gained into every...
Meany said that he could not express his true feelings about the council-which is also advising the President on the minimum-wage bill-because "there are ladies present...
...their undergraduate days at the City College of New York, where they both developed a boundless disdain for ideologies of both the right and left, the two editors emphasize fact and information in their magazine, avoid simplistic political stances. "Too many intellectuals," writes Kristol in the current Public Interest, "express decided views on automation, disarmament, urban renewal, and all sorts of other matters on which they are inadequately informed." Adds Bell: "If the function of the intellectual is to criticize, I say to the intellectual: specify-translate ideas into concrete programs...
Role of Chance. His robots have turned into cybernetic escapades. Behind their Plexiglas facades, these new sculptures are as immediate and erratic as a jukebox full of Beatles. His sculptures are "superfluous, relating to no specific function. They are instruments for me to express something." What? The answer seems to be the way that the world appears to be controlled by chance. Says he: "I assume that our society has sensed this unpredictability. Look at the number of insurance com panies." In the future, he hopes to get his messages across more directly by making his audience an active part...
Miss Clack said that she assisted in the burning to express her solidarity with all those who are opposed to military conscription and to the "idiocy and immorality of the American war in Vietnam...