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...think only when the economy has become developed, and only when the life of the people has improved, and only when the culture and education level has been raised, can the negative phenomena be eliminated in the end. So the overriding task is to be engaged in the Four Modernizations with one mind and one heart. What we are doing is making the best use of the inherent characteristics of socialism. We also want to make use of the useful features of the capitalist system to stimulate the productive forces of society...
...powers in the pyramidal cells of his brain. Even if one were to concede that in principle, and in some far-off century, psychology will be reducible to anatomy, science will hardly give us the key to evil and genius, which are, after all, not physical but cultural phenomena. The problem is one of categories. Was Lenin a genius? Who is to say? In another culture, perhaps, a case could be made that the brain of the man who introduced terror as a routine instrument of governance is to be studied for insights into criminality...
Houses do, however, give people creepy visions, re-arrange furniture, and open and close their own windows. Director Andrew Douglas, having decided that these phenomena on their own aren’t scary enough, gets cheap, but sometimes effective, jolts by using booming sound effects, eerie music, and jump cuts. These get the heart racing, but at the expense of internal logic...
...sink in that the splitting of the atom not only gave people no greater authority over nature than they had before, it proved how helpless they were when handling natural forces. Since that time, there seems to have been a general divorce of human life from other natural phenomena. It is as if people concluded that with atomic chain reactions nature played a trick on the world, and is no longer to be trusted as an ally...
...island of Kauai in 1778, Hawaiians were performing the hypnotic dance. Though its origins are steeped in legend, the hula is thought to have been brought to Hawaii by Polynesian immigrants more than 1,500 years ago. The stylized hand and foot gestures are meant to mirror natural phenomena like swaying palms and waterfalls, and are always accompanied by rhythmic chants. Grass skirts, leis and decorative ferns, nuts and shells, pictured, are intended to symbolize the integration of nature with Hawaiian life. There's no better place to learn about the hula, and watch the best dancers in the business...