Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made voluntary, labor unions broken up or every conceivable public project turned over to private ownership; nor are they hysterically anti-Communist. But taken together, these two volumes reveal the emergence of an American intellectual Right on the European model, basing its conservatism on a collective--rather than an individualist--understanding of society...
Hiram Salisbury was an epitome of the self-sufficient individualist. He was a farmer, a peddler, a carpenter, a tax-collector and a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, and everything he needed he seems to have made for himself. His great grand-nephew, Harrison, has an account book with records of all his financial transaction, so he knows more about Hiram's skills and vocations than about his thoughts, but Salisbury's pioneer ancestor remains a symbol for him of a pure, uncorrupt American optimism...
...told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and his ties with economists in the Chilean junta. A vigorous defender of academic freedom, Wilson replied that he would not tolerate an inquisition. In other matters, Wilson is also a stout individualist; he even turns out to watch Chicago's largely ignored football games...
...Montgomery Clift), and it is a western. I do know that it was lifted from Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and that the great Japanese director was so angered by the Hollywoodization of his classic that he made Yojimbo to satirize the genre, and particularly the joke of American-individualist hero myths...
Sartre still claims to be an anarchist--that is, he holds individualist activity above any other. Anarchy jibes with his definition of the limit of freedom: "the small movement which makes of a totally conditioned social being someone who does not render back completely what his conditioning has given him. Which makes Genet a poet when he had been rigorously conditioned to be a thief." The Invisible Man affirms his freedom when he says...