Word: weltanschauung
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...clean kneecap, even Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows. Nor is there any justifiable objection from those who dislike bare legs. Socks, when worn properly, are no more than than three inches below the knee. At best--or at worst--depending on one's sartorial Weltanschauung, five inches of flesh is exposed...
Skiman (picking self up): "Of course. But I can't seem to do a Weltanschauung any more...
Friend (frowning): "A Weltanschauung...
Skiman: "Ah, well. Weltanschauung himself once told me he often missed two out of five...
Undesirable Stimuli. "First of all, Catholics would ask Freudians to throw out their bootleg philosophy and theology and provide themselves with some properly aged nutriment. . . . Freudians need to recognize frankly that to prescribe for the education or re-education of anyone, a philosophy, a Weltanschauung, is necessary. . . . They would find that [Catholicism] . . . has much to recommend it. They would find a Weltanschauung elaborated by many generations of contributors who have produced a very thorough analysis of the end of man; namely, the purpose and goal of human life...