Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Family. Mikoyan is a fluent talker (but speaks little English), likes dancing, cooking Armenian dishes and horseback riding, is more amiable-or at least more ingratiating -than most Soviet chieftains. After three decades as a foreign trade specialist, and numerous trips abroad, he is also more knowledgeable about the...
Believers & Atheists. Existentialists find themselves in head-on collision with the most widely accepted tenets of many great philosophers-Plato, Descartes, Kant, Spinoza and Hegel. Their particular enemy is Hegel, for his insistence that all reality can be encompassed in a rational structure. It was this that inspired the melancholy...
Division of Labor. At the Red Scarf factory, students work according to a "rational division of labor." Children seven to nine years old, the party press notes, generally like to collect nails and bits of wood and carry them in their pockets. This interest is channeled "into the field of...
In this nuclear age, war is no longer a feasible choice, says Mills; we must have total peace. He holds that the history of modern society can most readily be understood as the story of the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power. Mills is not appalled by...
Taking Josie to bed and to wife is not a rational act on Dillon's part, but an admission of defeat; a retreat into the ghastly middle-class morass that he describes so frequently and with such emphatic relish; a form of suicide. Having effected this mock-death, he speaks...