Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breathless (in French). Formless, flashing cinematic cubism, based on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another...
...anxiety. The U.S., more than any other society in history, believes in change. Conservative in many ways, the U.S. has never been conservative in the sense of trying to preserve things the way they were yesterday. Its very orthodoxy is based on the idea of change: the most orthodox tenet in the American creed is that the individual can accomplish anything if he tries hard enough. It may be one of the glories of a free society, but it also carries great potential danger and may well be the greatest single cause of anxiety on the American scene. From...
...question requires an existentialist answer, too. The hero, though such ideas are far beyond his merely physical preoccupations, behaves like a personification of Gide's acte gratuit ("an action motivated by nothing . . . born of itself"), and his story can be seen as an extemporization on the existentialist tenet that life is just one damn thing after another, and death is the thing after that...
...away by other factors, though he still insists there is no reason to test Krebiozen further. Another expert, equally skeptical but more judicial, says: "From these cases, you can't help feeling there's something here that needs to be explained." This jibes with Dr. Phillips' tenet: "If the researchers in their ivory towers would stop bickering and get down to work, we could have some valuable information within a year, and a definite answer before too long...
Occupation Complex. History has left some psychological scars on the Shah's 20 million subjects. After centuries of conquest, Iran has a kind of occupation complex, vividly exemplified by a tenet of its Shi'ite sect of Islam, which holds that a man may legitimately disavow his religion in time of danger. ''Deep in the Iranian mind," says one Middle East expert, "lies the conviction that nothing ever happens in Iran except by the desire of a foreign power." Many of the middle-class Teheran intellectuals and business men who most heatedly denounced the recent election...