Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intimate Du. In two and sometimes three letters a day, Kafka compiled a monumental case history of his neuroses. Each balanced sentence, each self-lacerating perception seems to be an end in itself. It is almost as if Kafka set up the situation so he could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read Letter to His Father (Schocken Books, 1953), 45 pages of controlled rage, respect, affection and revulsion...
...youths to their churches and made this style of Christianity a live alternative again. Liberal religion is "culture-affirming," according to Ellwood, and functions best in a stable society. By contrast, the Jesus movement epitomizes the evangelicals' "survival Christianity," in which alienated groups find religious stability amid social turmoil...
...reconstructed. The "Year of Europe," which Kissinger himself proclaimed as one of his top priorities, has hardly begun, and yet the calendar year is nearly over. In the Middle East, which Kissinger has largely avoided, new initiatives are needed. Latin America, too, is once again in a state of turmoil that can hardly be ignored. And even in the fields that Kissinger has made his own, he himself has expressed a desire for what he calls "institutionalization"-a process by which fragile one-man accomplishments can become the cornerstone of future policy, to be carried on by his successors. With...
...primitive and mystical, the human psyche does not only contain multitudes of indenters, but uses those opposites as a dialectical mode of trying to discover new ways of acting. Indeed, the original metaphor of war held true for most regions of human personality, and Mailer, instead of avoiding such turmoil, would become a protypical 20th century American and seek out all such battles. Boxing became a useful metaphor, and he used it seriously...
...other day Kissinger sat at the round table in the corner of his office in the White House, a melancholy place now. Something Chou En-lai had told him on his first visit to China came back with special poignancy, almost like a poetic refrain. "There is turmoil under the heavens, and we have the opportunity to end it," Chou had said in the summer of 1971. That line-that language-alone was almost enough to make Kissinger an admirer of Chou's. It is Kissinger's purpose for being. His deep worry is that the chance...