Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, the crises in the other Universities were mere manifestations of a widespread crisis of the University in advanced capitalist societies. It was naive to believe that a movement as broad and as deep as present student unrest would spare an academic community that prides it self not only on its intellectual achievements but also on its general involvement and leadership role. Indeed, Harvard's pride--some would call it self-satisfaction--only served to delay recognition of the fact that what was happening here was not a succession of discrete loud knocks at the door but the poundings...
...childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing use of drugs; you can see it in self-conscious (and, perhaps, selfish) catharsis for guilt and boredom like the occupation of University Hall. We have chosen like the streets of our own minds over the highways to the stars...
...Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special class of people that Austrians consider teppert, or slightly mad. Even more than Milan, Vienna is the heart and soul of opera land, the city of melodic Mozartian fantasy and thunderous Wagnerian pageantry. Every coffee house has its tables of self-appointed critics; taxi drivers know all the gossipy details of each new backstage feud. Though impoverished Austria badly needed more practical things after World War II, one of the government's first major building activities seemed quite plausible to the Viennese. It was the $10 million reconstruction...
...lived: an absurd misfit. Power can afford the risk, and not just because he is so brilliantly in control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...
...series of soft implosions of self-perception. Janet realizes that she has been denying her impulses as a writer. She is guilty of self-censoring the matter and treatment of her work in order not to embarrass her family or jeopardize her suburban status. She vows that in the future she will make use of hate, envy, lust and fear. But for a woman who believes that art is condensed reality in the way that concentrated orange juice is the essence of a healthy breakfast drink, such a midyear's resolution will scarcely be enough...