Word: outward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood, as it is perhaps also in ours." Further, Freud held that man possesses a death instinct which, since it cannot be satisfied except in suicide, is instead turned outward as aggression against others. Dr. Fredric Wertham, noted crusader against violence, disagrees sharply and argues that violence is learned behavior, not a product of nature but of society: "The violent man is not the natural but the socially alienated...
...world of string chamber music, it takes works of great individuality to prevent the subtleties and arcanities of the medium from melting into homogeneity. The String Trio Op. 45 of Arnold Schoenberg is much like the Sessions in outward appearance: three sections of alternating mood written in a deceptively similar atonal style...
...needs a great deal of analysis. You can get a better word than face, no doubt, but the generalization I suggest here is that the Chinese are more face-conscious by far because of the way they are set up in their society. The stress on personal conduct, your outward action towards others as a basis upon which you are judged, comes straight down from the classics to the present day. This leads to a great concern about how you look. How you look is an indication of how you are doing. Is your conduct proper? Are you succeeding...
Instead, manifesto and declaratory action seem to be more appropriate for this time. Liturgy and ethic, made articulate in humane and political commitment, are the best inner and outward expressions of the power that is now largely nacent in the Church. The language of "must, if, may, and urge" which is the hortatory language of Confessions written in a time of failing faith, can be transformed into "have, did, shall, and join us." That is the language of manifesto...
...outward appearances, Rhodesia has remained unperturbed by six months of United Nations economic sanctions. The bustling capital of Salisbury is alive with fashion-conscious white shoppers. As before, parking is a problem. Car owners have had ample supplies of fuel furnished by the kindred regime of South Africa. And new factories, created since the crisis to take up the slack in imports, are producing more of everything from ballpoint pens to refrigerators. Now, however, a government announcement indicates that Rhodesia has, in fact, some very real troubles...