Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th Century largely has been a confirmation of Nietzsche's most horrible fears. Modern man is increasingly incapable of conceiving of any end higher than mere life, or at least mere life with a second car. The sacrifices of old, committed in the name of love of God, or of nation, or of woman, are no longer understandable...
...only things modern man can grasp are that he possesses a body and that this body has desires which must be satisfied and a life which must be prolonged. In the desolate landscape of modernity, any concerns other than those of the body have no place...
...noticeably some 20 years ago here in America. Around that time, hedonists and idealists converged as flower children and whined about giving peace a chance. When John Lennon imagined a world in which there was "nothing to kill or die for, no religion too," etc., this descent was, as modern political scientists say, "institutionalized...
Originally scheduled to be published in the January issue of the journal of the American Physical Society, "Reviews of Modern Physics," the report was held up when the SDI office classified several sections of the document...
...Oval Office. I can't take one iota of credit for the standing of Ronald Reagan in the polls. It all happened naturally." That is Speakes' genius. With the aw-shucks cunning of a Mississippi country editor, which he once was, he instantly understood that the modern appetite for news meant that anytime he stepped out into the anarchy of the White House briefing room he could be on the nation's screens; he could get more airtime than any other official, including the President. He curtailed live coverage of his briefings and became more of a background voice than...