Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Bunk Detector. What the Now Generation possesses in every stratum is a keen ability to sense meaning on many levels at the same time. In its psychological armory it counts a powerful array of weapons-both defensive and offensive. Foremost among them:
...womb baby," one who cannot kick the infantile desire for instant gratification. Anyone who substitutes perspiration for inspiration is a "wonk"-derived from the British "wonky," meaning out of kilter. The quality an earlier generation labeled cool is "tough," "kicky," "bitchin'," or "groovy." But the most meaningful facet of In-Talk is its ambiguity, a reflection of youth's determination to avoid self-definition even in conversation. "Up tight" can mean anxious, emotionally involved or broke; to "freak out" can mean to flip, go high on drugs, or simply to cross the edge of boredom; a "stud...
LOGOS: All the better. Many influential theologians wrote in German-Bultmann, Bonhoeffer, Barth-and German not only offers us a chance to obfuscate, it adds a tangy foreign flavor. For instance, there is Historic, meaning bare facts, Geschichte, meaning interpretive history.
A different approach is taken by Garden City High School on Long Island, where a group of 100 juniors and seniors take a coordinated program based on such major philosophical themes as man's search for order and meaning in life, his adjustment to change and his yearning for...
What it sees becomes a far-out, uptight and vibrantly exciting picture. Blow-Up is the first movie made in English by Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, the most sensitive and profound of cinema's anatomists of melancholy (L'Avventura, La None, Eclipse), and in the film he...