Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, the white races have largely discredited themselves in the eyes of the rest of the world. The assumption of western ethical superiority has been shattered in the Asian mind by two world wars and the experience of western motion pictures. To the eastern peoples, we stand for war, sex, and technics; they want none of the first two, but they do want our technics; and not solely for the raising of living standards, but more significantly, because western technical culture is considered to be the world civilization of our time. They see this technical culture as a detachable...
...excitement we derive from watching people act and suffer onstage, rather than dream-phantoms. A proudction directed along Genet's lines might easily be bloody dull, but since Genet is to a great extent liberated from our values, there is no telling what might come into his mind. Perhaps dullness was for some reason his intention. Well, Genet has all sorts of intentions with which the rest of us cannot be expected to sympathize...
Like most every corridor we pursue into Genet's devious, intriguing mind, this one brings us up against a solid stone question mark. Every statement, perhaps, that can be made about Deathwatch can be convincingly refuted by following up a different train of hints. But then, J.-P. Sartre calls Genet a black magician, and it is no wonder we are unsure how his spells should be pronounced, or what spirits they are intended to call up. All that is certain is that the spell is most strangely and subtly effective
...example of Burma which was not receiving military aid to refute this. Nor is a change in the form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which he has in mind. It is not difficult to see that a country which receives only economic aid is free to divert a large part of its own resources towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose...
...against the good-humored salesmanship of a nearby vendor. He now felt not only perverted but cheap, and when a peanut salesman came by, Vag eagerly bought a small bag to share with with Sebbie. Bits of shells were blown all over Vag's flannels, but the peace of mind was worth...