Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be only a matter or time before it will be able to sound like the best symphony orchestra in the world or out of it. As for composition, it is theoretically possible that the computer can compose music in a given style, even the style of a particular individual...
...universe is an infinitely minute complex of causes and effect, and each effect acts as one of the causes for a thousand other "effects." Isolating a particular cause for any single "effect" is the great Western error. It is like ripping a thread out of a tapestry and calling that the "key" thread in the fabric. And this is what we do whenever we try to "make a decision based on the data." One must give up trying to isolate cause and effect, and see that the process of the universe is an infinitely complex one, that every particle -- including...
...could be something totally different: a response to a particular political order and the grievances it engenders. If symbols gibe with certain psychological needs, it may also be true that particular kinds of political order cultivate certain psychological states. The lot of the Chinese student (as efforts to reform the educational system indicate) was not an easy one. Like society as a whole, the Chinese educational structure has been arbitrary in the extreme and rigidly ideological in orientation. China has been so gutted with students that many are being sent back to do agricultural labor because there are not enough...
Yale students seem to have located a small but profitable outlet for perhaps a couple of dozen tickets, which resulted in the $160 sale. The original price asked for that particular pair was $175, but the cunning Yale alumnus bid it down. Other than that sale, the highest offered for an individual ticket thus far has been about $16, said a Yale Daily reporter...
Birth: Your existence is determined by random causes on three level: 1) the decision of your parents to conceive a child at that particular time in their lives is less the product of their philosophical ideas than of the security which your father felt because the lawnmovers were selling well in the hardware store he worked in and which your mother felt because she was sitting around young and complacent with little else to do; 2) the act of conception was something they had to try several nights before they were sure they had something--why on one of those...