Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growing up in Cleveland, Seltzer did not have any particular reason to like his city. His father, a carpenter who wrote 49 Western novels in his spare time, was almost penniless. Louis had to quit school in the seventh grade to take a job as office boy for the now vanished Cleveland Leader. Within a year, he was writing his own light Sunday column, "By Luee, The Offis Boy." But at 15 he was already a has-been. His city editor fired him and told him he was not fit for journalism...
...Continent, the philosophical revolt took a different form. Germany's Edmund Husserl developed a "descriptive science" that he called phenomenology. His method was to examine and describe a particular experience-at the same time mentally blocking off any speculations about its origin or significance, any memories of similar experiences. By this act of epoche, a deliberate suspension of judgment, Husserl felt that the mind could eventually intuit the essence of the object being studied. Husserl's bafflingly difficult approach influenced such modern existentialist philosophers as Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre...
...method. The existentialists, on the other hand, continue to ask large-size questions, but because of their man-centered approach they are indifferent to systematic thinking. Thus, for both movements, a question such as "What is truth?" becomes impossible to answer. The logical positivist would say that a particular statement of fact can be declared true or false by empirical evidence; anything else is meaningless. A language philosopher would content himself with analyzing all the ways the word true can be used. The existentialist would emphasize what is true for a person in a particular situation...
Sculptor Jason Seley said that the market was flooded with fakes: "Some sculptures are simply taken off a Victorian lamp base." But he was one of the few to stick to the subject of forgery. Abstract Expressionist Adolph Gottlieb blasted at the public, in general and dealers in particular, saying, "Society doesn't seem to be interested in protecting the artist." Painter Theodoros Stamos lambasted dealers who "hold a picture for two years before they send it back, so you forget what the hell it looks like." Then added, "I don't give a damn about the public...
...worked in their spare time on a theory of memory developed by Sweden's Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961). According to this theory, memory depends on a process in which molecules of ribonucleic acid (RNA), or possibly subordinate protein molecules, are coded to record a particular event and then become lodged in certain nerve cells...