Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaped the philosophic attitudes of his works if the entire climate of intellectual history had not prepared an audience for him. The 20th century was primed for a philosophy of concrete things rather than abstract ideas, was ready for a psychology of sensations-for the brute fact, the tactile thrill, the stream of sensuousness that inundate the pages of Hemingway...
...standard reactions to a career of academic abandon--the reaction of an upholder of the course system who urges adjustment to it, and that of a fellow student who, dutiful himself, finds a vicarious thrill in the freedom of his friend and urges him on in his "defiance." Academic abandon, therefore, is subject to these contradictory pressures, both of them irrelevant to its spirit, both seeing only the fact of rejection--the one disapproving, the other sanctioning. Neither, however, understands the positive impulse of academic abandon, for to one the phenomenon is simply a malfunctioning of the system; while...
...course, many more American Jews should come to Israel. We need them to build the country. The attitude of American Jews toward Israel is essentially immoral. They "thrill" to Israel's achievements, they look to Israel as a "center for the expression of the Jewish spirit...
...pace, Murdock will make good, with time to spare, on his ambition to run a $100 million operation. Few of his friends expect him to stop there. Says one: "David is after more than money. Just what it is. I don't know." Murdock thinks he does. "The thrill of achievement," he says, "is to me as the shot is to the dope addict. You may beat me, but I'll come back and come back and come back until I beat you or drop dead...
...boss was a lynx-eared noise merchant by the name of Sidney Frey. Audiophiles alert for a vicarious thrill can hear awesome testimony to his demand for accuracy on a forthcoming Audio Fidelity album titled Sound Effects II. During his campaign in Brooklyn, Frey staged six crashes (by sending one wreck at the end of a tow rope hurtling into another), but the calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed...