Word: sinic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, did these climbers come to be upon the cliffs at all? Why do these men suffer this millennial death by inches? Toynbee's answer to the problem of causation is illumined by a daring dialectic. "The play," he says, "opens with a perfect state of Yin [the Sinic term for the state of perfect passivity opposed to which is Yang, the state of ordeal and creativity...