Word: nihilisme
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Russian psychiatrists have long frowned on lobotomy, a drastic operation developed in Portugal and the U.S. but by no means approved by all Western specialists (TIME, June 22). For a generation, Russia's doctors have been conditioned to follow, sheeplike, the late Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of conditioned-reflex fame...
As the light of mercy never shines on Akutagawa's parade of adulterers, murderers and bigots, he sometimes seems as cool and distant to human frailty as the grey shale that lines the heights of Fujiyama. But the sources of his own nihilism are made poignantly clear in a...
Inevitably, the gang fell apart. Gino became a pervert and ended his life in jail. Carlo scrambled off to fight in Ethiopia and died for II Duce. Giorgio, the leader, became an antiFascist; it was he who taught Valerio that life meant more than the flashy nihilism of the Blackshirts...
Adlai Stevenson, Unitarian: "Religious faith remains, in my opinion, our greatest national resource ... It is our protection against the moral confusion, which is too often the moral nihilism, of this age. The blight of moral relativism has not fallen destructively upon us ... The mass of our people expect of their...
The third act clears up the reason for the diverse points of view. For though together they represent the intellectual pinnacle of 20th century culture, each view is cowardly, frustrated, or morally bankrupt, simply because each is a mere intellectualization. The inhabitants of Heartbreak House do not have the courage...