Word: weltanschauung
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...Welcome Weltanschauung. The President's message stimulated an immediate reaction abroad. The French press, resentful of American influence in Europe, generally welcomed Nixon's new Weltanschauung as a realistic view of a changing globe. But the Germans and the British, both leary about the possible withdrawal of American forces from Europe, were more cautious. Communist bloc reaction was restrained. Tass said that "the main aims of U.S. policy remain unchanged," pointed angrily to Nixon's decision to press ahead with the Safeguard program as evidence of continued American emphasis on military force as the basis of policy...
...Brinton wrote for the 25th Year Report of his class: "At present there are still a few ragged edges on my Weltanschauung. The more malicious among you will no doubt understand if I say that, whereas in 1919 I though of myself as a liberal with at least an initial capital, I now think of myself as a liberal in inverted commas...
...tyranny of the Brain Cells and their Gestapo, the Ball-bearings (led by Musical Director Liz Robbins), to convert the world-machine from harsh angles to flowing curves through sabotage and quiet confidence. All this requires an awfully large chunk of willing suspension of disbelief. If Leonard's weltanschauung is "smooth, round and beautifully spherical" why can't he and the "well-rounded" ball-bearings live in peace...
...whether an individual is stuck with a single imprint, as Leary thinks most of us are, he envisions a society in which LSD is administered to infant once a week. LSD works, according to Leary, by suspending the old imprints temporarily, and leaves the individual with a slightly altered weltanschauung. A child raised in such a way would be able to watch ten television programs simultaneously, as well as to perform more useful feats such as empathizing with all sorts of people. "Most kids in our society grow up without being sensitized to more than one way of organizing experience...
Such piercing introspection is Aiken's greatest talent, as well as the framework on which he hangs his personal Weltanschauung. For he believes that the real nature of human existence manifests itself not in overt actions but in painful silences...