Word: holism
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...advanced technology, as its ideal. A 90-minute film of Fuller's life and work will complete the show, which costs $2 if you're a student. Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. in B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston. But if Bucky's whole holy holism really excites you, you can spend $25.00 to attend one of the seminars the luminary will produce at the Science Center at Harvard over the weekend, or $60.00 to attend the whole three-night shebang. Call 9654491 for further details about the weekend seminar series, entitled "Being with Bucky...
...notion that the whole will somehow take care of itself if the parts are looked after is no longer valid. Instead, there is a growing acceptance of "holism," a new consciousness of the interrelation of all things. "Spaceship earth, the limits of growth, the fragility of our life-supporting biosphere have all dramatized the ecological and philosophical truth that everything is related to everything else...
...freelance named Warner Williams, whose article on Simon Moro has been rejected by a magazine. To make it acceptable, Williams then undertakes a paper chase through notes and memory. The result is the novel, the whole (though not necessarily verifiable) truth about Simon Moro, whose own identity is a holism of flackery and confused truths. His accent is Central European, his interests are Hapsburgian kinky. He began his career in Austria but was actually born in Vienna, N.J. A nice touch. Fittingly, one of Moro's last attempts to reawaken America to the majesty of terror occurs...
With Elizabethan vim and versatility, Smuts had lived his own "idea of the whole" which he expounded in his book, Holism and Evolution in 1926. He believed that everywhere in the universe-among electrons and protons, plants and animals, minds and personalities, empires and world orders-the forces of cooperation and fusion, i.e., "holism,"*are at work. But at Smuts's life's end, not even his own beloved country was whole...
Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...