Word: materialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
...noted refugee writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted a writers' jamboree with piffle that reached the lower depths of unreason. Gorky's dialectical materialist account of Greek mythology defied parody, e.g., Icarus was not a parable of hubris but a prototype of the Soviet rocket, and poor God himself "an artificial summing up of the products of labor...
...Tate's world, a politician who uses immoral methods unconsciously acts on the assumption that society is a machine. So do bankers, butchers and bartenders-everyone who exhibits the "secularism of the swarm" and pursues purely materialist goals. This drift away from a moral center can be clearly seen in the totalitarian states, and is spreading through the free world, where "so much of democratic social theory reaches us in the language of 'drive,' 'stimulus' and 'response.' " For these words Tate would substitute, respectively, "end," "choice" and "discrimination," for "it is by means...