Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, his destiny and that of France had been inseparably intertwined. For over a decade, he had presided over France in as rare an identification of ruler and ruled as modern history shows. In many ways he was an anachronism. He dealt in abstract verities more than in practical politics. He bullied in an age of persuasion; he dictated in an era of dialogue. But through it all there was always some curious alchemy between Charles de Gaulle and the people of France when it came down to the irrevocable out or non. It seemed inconceivable, even as the damning...
...much the existence but the concept of God, and even the theologians who founded the movement differed sharply in their views. Gabriel Vahanian of Syracuse University spoke of the death of God in the sense that the creator assumed by Western civilization no longer meant anything to the modern mind...
...confident manner. He called a press conference in the Sala Rosa of Rome's Cavalieri Hilton, ordered drinks set up for newsmen, and explained why he was going. "Controversial issues with in the order," he said, had caused him to be "reproached for his progressive position and modern approach to life." Later he told a TIME correspondent that "I would have betrayed my vocation if I had remained in the order under present conditions. I would have been bound to a life of inaction." Instead, Schoenenberger will remain a priest, plans to found an organization of clerics...
...lyrics with alacrity and in the process developed two extraordinarily powerful strains in his songwriting. One set of lyrics dealt with social ills; the songs in this group started out a fairly simple-minded protest songs and ended up as fierce expressionistic collages of the sights and sounds of modern America. The other set of lyrics was Dylan's special breed of love songs, at the same time supplicating and defiant, tender and cruel...
...obviously a very important problem, and one that is not yet near to being resolved. But there do seem to be some grounds for expecting that alienation is not a necessary feature of all industrial society. The various aspects of alienation all reflect the central fact that a modern industrial worker or bureaucrat performs his work for someone else's benefit. The work situation does not present him with a goal that he personally values. If a worker controlled his own equipment, if he knew that he was to receive the full value of his work, if he were permitted...