Word: materialistic
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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...
...good Communist can still go to church in East Germany-provided his reasons are purely esthetic. A worried young comrade had asked the Communist youth paper, Junge Welt, whether a "true materialist" was doing right in listening to concerts and classical music in church. Replied Propagandist Gerhart Eisler in the manner of a Red Emily Post...
...Never in my whole life have I believed in God nor do I intend to start. I consider myself a true materialist. That never stopped me from visiting churches . . . splendid monuments of the past ... I have heard some very good concerts in various churches and still like to attend them . . . Handel, Bach and Beethoven are among the greatest composers. They will surely be played and loved even after nobody on earth believes in God any more ... A true materialist can certainly hear a good concert of classical music in a church without losing his materialist virginity...