Word: tenets
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Only faith, for instance, will carry most readers past Lévi-Strauss's tenet that the mind may be the prisoner of a secret code, locked in the unconscious, that often has as little to do with conscious reality as the rules of grammar have to do with the function of speech. If order exists anywhere-in the behavior of the atom, the dance of heated particles, the orbit of the stars-then, say the structuralists, order must exist everywhere, even in the brain. Just as the law of gravity determined the fall of Newton's apple...
...influence in the selection of the G.O.P. presidential candidate in 1968?and beyond. Though he is cagey enough not to commit himself so soon, he leans toward Michigan's George Romney for '68. Since more Negroes could come to resent Romney's Mormon religion?which still has an archaic tenet that denies the "priesthood" to Negroes?Brooke would be a valuable ally in defending the Michigan Governor's liberal record on racial issues...
...moved to meet the challenge with positive action. Sitting down with King at week's end, they agreed to his demands for an "open city," promised to take affirmative steps to open all-white neighborhoods to Negroes. The Chicago Real Estate Board withdrew its opposition to the basic tenet of open-housing legislation. The housing authority promised to improve public housing and place families in the best available housing without regard to the racial character of the neighborhood. Mortgage bankers said that they would provide mortgage money without regard to race. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice said...
...leaping across great tracts of human history. Fascism, Communism, recent wars, revolutions and the East-West split are played back in surrealist style. Practically every philosophy is put in the pillory. Barth contrives to blaspheme against, and maybe illuminate, both Judaism and Christianity, as well as the central tenet of 20th century humanism-that all life can be accounted for in terms of reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary...
...Pulpy. Pete Petersen, in short, is up to his seat belt in money. But he has not forgotten that it was his magazines that elevated him from his lowly 1947 status as an unemployed Hollywood publicity agent. His publications still reflect his basic tenet. They are aimed at the active "hobby enthusiast." Their information is reliable, their illustrations are informative, and above all, they speak their aficionados' lingo. Hot Rod (monthly circ. 770,000), for example, is for the flat-out pro. "If you don't know a hemi from a zoomie, you're not ready...