Word: immanentism
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On this unlikely premise, Romainian Gary has constructed a wildly funny, and ultimately mordant picaresque novel. The time is 20 years later, and Schatz has become police chief of a German town, though still captive straight man to Genghis Cohn's raucous spirit. "It has been my fate," says...
If the church's mission is to be defined that broadly, its ministers will obviously face some pitfalls. They may become involved in complicated situations they do not understand, and they may tarnish the spiritual aura of the church. The intellectual hero of many of the new activists is...
An Ordered Universe. In the postwar technological explosion, scientists have seen trusted "laws of nature" replaced by subtler hypotheses, discovered that the more they know, the more remains to be learned. "Scientists are not as cocksure as they used to be," says Botanist Edmund Sinnott. former dean of Yale'...
"Mr. Khrushchev thinks more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson," Walter Lippmann writes after his Moscow visit. Certainly the Russian Premier is handling the current Russian-British exchanges on Laos with coolness and detached calculation. Indeed, the deliberation with which both sides in the neotiations are unravelling each...
But Young's denial of personal expression, his consequent search for newness, and his fear of immanent boredom have brought him full circle to the idea that perhaps only in extreme repetition is there innovation. This is the logical and nihilistic end-point of the avant-gardists' idolatry of innovation...