Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face with moments of crisis in which they questioned the meaning of their existence and their significance in this world, they were all too often left with despair, loneliness and fear. However, it was when I developed a system of spiritual therapeutic techniques that I began to see real progress in my patients, for it is only when man can see himself as one and at peace with the universe that he can overcome his feelings of despair about life and his terror of death...
...Lion's progress across the country is not so much geographical as spiritual. Max likes to whore and brawl; Lion favors the easy approach: he sees himself as a scarecrow. "Those crows don't bother the field because they're scared of the scarecrow." Lion tries to live a life of casual but crafty comedy. Max is skeptical, reminding Lion that "you're not playing with a full deck. You've got one foot in the great beyond...
Science did indeed bring forth a Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries...
...fundamental nature can be learned of the sub-nuclear world. In his controversial book The Coming of the Gold en Age, Molecular Biologist Gunther Stent brashly assumes that all basic questions in his field are either solved or close to solution. He also thinks that all scientific progress is fast approaching the point of diminishing returns. Man will never know how the universe began or what is the most fundamental of atomic particles, he says, because such mysteries remain "hidden in an end less and ultimately tiresome succession of Chinese boxes...
RECENTLY AN intensive study in The New York Times concluded that two bottlenecks hindered economic progress in Asia. The first was the increasing population resulting from better medical care. The second was the failure to distribute equitably the benefits of investment in industry and agriculture. For centuries the West attempted to exploit Eastern civilization. Now it tries to explain it away with facile economic analysis...