Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that the United States will drown in the waves of complacency of the '70s. My reason for this belief is founded on the tenet that an individual can make a difference. Depite the ignominious, alienating pressures of the expanding world. I believe that people can improve their society and that they can enhance their environment. What I submit is not a lofty doctrine of Utopian ideals; instead, it is a confidence, in self and in humanity, that defeats the forces of apathy, insolence, and disgust which have invaded...
...lose our innocence through psychic pollution," which is, "like environmental pollution, an inevitable result of human society." The point is rammed home by a montage of photographs showing various moments of violence and human misery. But this effective cinematic ploy is followed by the enunciation of the guiding tenet underlying the spiritual system of Arica: "Unity must be achieved as a fact of reason and not an act of faith." The constant drone of John Bleibtreu's narration muddies the film, distracting the viewer from the lush visual imagery contained in the footage...
...amazing thing about On Moral Fiction is that, despite the naivete of its fundamental tenet, it is filled with acute, valuable observations on contemporary art. Gardner's ideas make a lot more sense when he applies them to contemporary culture than when he states them in the abstract...
...giving the minority groups special representation and were therefore opposed to the constitution in its present form. The convention delegates, similarly, abhorred the thought of tainting the "divine" institution of one-man-one-vote and were amazed that the minority students were so eager to discard this basic tenet of political philosophy...
...live in a chalet in the Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...