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Word: rootes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This means that the mistake must be at the root, at the very basis of human thinking in the past centuries. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic authonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher froce above him. It could also be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A World Split Apart' | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...rather play for our crowd than out there. It's not cut--throat. In the Big Ten the rans root, here they watch. The student bodies and alumni are so different, more like a family That's what makes it the Ivy League. When I graduate and go to a Harvard game I'll probably act the same...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Here's Looking at Ya, Brownie | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...universe as quiet, serene and essentially unchanging. Now it is known to be the scene of incredible violence?of exploding galaxies and stars, of prodigiously energetic quasars, a universe that still literally reverberates from its fiery birth. Many scientists are all but convinced that black holes lie at the root of many of these awesome events. They are fascinated and somewhat frustrated by the fact that the immense gravity of black holes prevents any escape from them. As a consequence, says Harvard Physicist Larry Smarr, "there are parts of the universe from which, in principle, we cannot get any information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...which normally tell only the good news-were reporting daily from the provinces that the long-running effort to wipe out the influence of the "Gang of Four" was encountering some unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still some officials, declared one newspaper darkly, who insisted upon "exercising fascist dictatorship over the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Dislodging the Remnant Poison | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...economists are turning to Pop psychology because the consumer seems as skittish as a race horse. Several surveys show a marked drop in consumer confidence in recent months. The respected University of Michigan national survey reveals growing uncertainty about the economy's future, bewilderment over the root causes of inflation, and defeatism about the Government's chances of containing it. The Michigan group concluded that the consumers' outlook was "on balance unfavorable." Nonetheless, consumers told the pollsters that they felt it was a good time to buy cars, houses and other big-dollar items. Never before in the 32-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Customer Holds the Key: The Customer Holds the Key | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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