Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What the rebels and dissenters ask will not be found on the moon: social justice, peace, an end to hypocrisy-in short, Utopia. But to the extent that the rebels really want a particular kind of tomorrow-rather than simply a curse on, and an escape from, today-the moon flight of Apollo 8 shows how that Utopian tomorrow could come about. For this is what Westernized man can do. He will not turn into a passive, contemplative being; he will not drop out and turn off; he will not seek stability and inner peace in the quest for nirvana...
Those who lived through the late '30s retain a particular fondness for the books that he wrote then. But the generation of the '60s knows Steinbeck's works less readily as the celebrations of the land and the common folk that his contemporaries once found them. Perhaps appropriately-for he wrote with a cinematic clarity-Steinbeck's vision of America is most frequently glimpsed today in late-show reruns of The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden. His literary heritage has been to summon up a sort of vivid, brittle nostalgia, and one tends...
...Chinese press tells the tale of a woman teacher, educated in the Soviet Union, who had never been to the rural areas and who feared to cross a particular wooden bridge. She has now learned to lug 60-lb. loads on a car rying pole across that bridge, thanks to the peasants. "What I learned in the So viet Union was nothing but stinking bourgeois thinking," she is quoted as saying. "I was unable to carry things on a pole. To go on in this way would lead to the quagmire of revisionism...
Stretched Time. The psychological tests produced other interesting, but still inconsistent results. The men's performance was unaffected in a test that demands signaling when a particular letter appears in a group of letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot...
...occasionally wonder if Vonnegut's writing will lose its appeal a few ages hence. Certainly life will continue to become even more complex and our minds will want to identify that this is happening to us. But will people drift out of the particular absurdities they now languish in and start speaking in a new idiom different from the one Vonnegut's characters used to speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change...