Word: weltanschauung
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pacing is flawless, and the trash level is just right. And One Fifth Avenue has other virtues that are harder to explain. It has an actual Weltanschauung--it gets at the deep truth of shallow people. Women control men with sex. Men control women with money. With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with either divorce or one party's total subjugation. Power and pleasure are the only things that are real, and they endlessly swap places as means and end. Everybody in One Fifth Avenue, good and bad, is bound by these rules...
...crowd. What really caught my attention, though, was an off-the-curriculum discussion about when I should use the weapon I would have the right to carry. "Bare fear doesn't justify self-defense," the instructor told me. "Only reasonable fear." This man, a gun dealer whose whole Weltanschauung seemed largely based on his right to defend himself with lethal force if need be, was very clear on the matter: you can't go blasting away at things that go bump in the night...
...when I slept over at Joey Castellano's house and had my entire culinary weltanschauung shattered. At the breakfast table, I saw a plate of doughnuts. What else did people eat for breakfast? Ice cream? Hershey bars? Was everything outside my home thrilling, scary food anarchy...
...Britain's Einstein Year events. "Computers, iPods, mobile phones all came about because of Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect; GPS and satellite navigation systems are only possible because of relativity." Einstein saw the world differently; check out these events if you want new insights into his weltanschauung...
...Britain's Einstein Year events. "Computers, iPods, mobile phones all came about because of Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect; gps and satellite navigation systems are only possible because of relativity." Einstein saw the world differently; check out these events if you want new insights into his weltanschauung...