Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"But all of these writers are interested in the disintegration of life only because you can achieve a certain kind of lucidity when you are 'cracking up.' They aren't out to promote crack-ups, however."
"What attracts me to existentialism is that it is a philosophy of human life, whereas a lot of modern philosophy doesn't have anything to do with anything anybody is interested in. There are uncountable 'problems' in philosophy, but some questions we don't care to know the answer to...
Earle mentioned the growth of courses in existentialism in other American universities. Yale and Michigan, in addition to his own Northwestern, have added it to their curricula. "It's penetrating, because students are interested in it," he explained. "No doubt Sartre will be stale also in a hundred years or...
The first inhabitants will be of three different kinds: non-club upperclassmen, club upperclassmen interested only in the living quarters who must pay cash for meals in the dining hall, and a complement of sophomores to make use of the 250-man dining hall.
Money is the big problem now. Alumni have money to give but they hold back, first of all because the majority of them don't want any alternative to the club system, no matter how "meaningful" President Goheen says it is; secondly, potential contributors who are interested don't like...