Word: tensioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh from their high-tension 39 to 37 revenge victory over Yale on January 16, the Stahlmen will be looking for their eighth triumph in nine starts, Holy Cross being the lone victor. But the Jumbos, led by Captain Bob Skarda and his well-trained push shots, may well prove a stumbling block; two of the Crimson's thirteen defeats last year were suffered at their hands...
...tragic question: how is human existence possible? In the face of the 19th Century's positivism which arrogantly asserted the triumph of man, Kierkegaard threw his tragic answer: man exists simultaneously on two irreconcilable planes, in time and in eternity. So man lives in insoluble tension ; in time he exists not as an individual but only as an irrelevant member of a species; in eternity it is only the individual who exists, without society, in ultimate loneliness. Because of this insoluble tension, Kierkegaard deduced, man exists in fear and trembling, in despair and tragedy. What makes human existence nevertheless...
...agnostic, Sartre took Kierkegaard's concept of tension, threw out God. "Whether God exists or not," he says, "is of no importance in our philosophy. There is no communication between Him and us." Since God is at best irrelevant, Sartre holds, man is responsible solely to himself. "You are your life and nothing else," says a figure in Sartre's play Huis Clos. The author thinks he has capsuled his philosophy in that sentence...
...Three. Meanwhile, Jimmy Byrnes tried some personal peacemaking in the Balkans. He agreed to recognize Tito's Yugoslav Republic, though pointing to "its failure to implement the guarantee of personal freedom" laid down at Yalta. Bevin followed suit. At London, Byrnes had tried to ease the tension by recognizing Hungary. Washington thought he might now do the same with Rumania and Bulgaria, though their one-front regimes were as repressive as ever...
...communication system for half an hour by accidentally jamming the patrol cars' short-wave radios. On another occasion, the New Haven Railroad electrified lines were stopped in their tracks by a form of Window called "Rope"--rolls of aluminium tape, which fell from planes and draped themselves across high-tension wires, short-circuiting them