Word: transcending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectuals whom literary intellectuals decry. It was morally sensitive scientists who helped inspire the nuclear-test-ban treaty, and they also lead the most informed debate on the ABM program. In addition, an entire new generation of scientific intellectuals is deeply concerned about ecology and environment-preoccupations that far transcend the borders of narrow pragmatic thinking...
...think. He has greater freedom to act, to change the structure of his response, and find opportunities in his environment than the traditional forms of social analysis would lead him to believe. Somehow, by thoroughly understanding how we are determined, we gain the confidence to act so as to transcend determinism...
...based on conditions in America. Discussing the decline of the Socialists after the First World War, Lasch argues that their downfall can be traced to the rise of Bolshevism within the movement. The Russian Revolution provided many American socialists with a new revolutionary model, a model which seemed to transcend orthodox Marxist categories. In their excitement, the American Bolsheviks tended to forget the total dissimilarities between conditions in Russia and America, and began to propagandize for a transplanting of the Russian Revolution to the United States. In so doing, the Bolsheviks reduced the Socialist movement to a group of internally...
Regardless of their genesis, Milner argues, the best proverbs easily transcend ethnic and geographical barriers. They deal in the fundamental stuff of life: love and war, birth and death, sickness and health, work and play. Like the human mind itself, they seek the core meaning of things and the satisfying symmetry of antithesis. They touch the taproots of the mind without requiring the service of the intellect...
...society that is raising a privileged but not-necessarily-happy few, oppressing many of its members, stifling creativity to a very great degree, and driving itself insanely towards self-destruction and annihilation. I was appalled at how difficult most of the people in the room were finding it to transcend their own persons and the uniqueness of the situation--at how hard it was for them to enter into any sort of meaningful dialogue with three beautiful people who were trying to call their attention to matters so vital to the problem of what it means to be human...