Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could a new theater on Western Avenue prompt a move of the ART, freeing up all of the Loeb for full time undergraduate...
...culture, here Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty. These men talk to her as they have probably never talked in their lives before, and the rich and intricate tapestry she weaves from their stories is enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. When she describes the family spirit and pride in their work of the men at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, shut down by the government, or the still reverberating agony of one of the soldiers who witnessed the My Lai massacre, or the pathetic, "I wanna...
While discussing the importance of memory, Michael Lemonick made the absurd statement that "there's really no such thing as the present." This contradicts all serious philosophical analysis--both Eastern and Western. In reality there is nothing but the present as far as human experience is concerned. The present is the intersection of our consciousness with the flow of time. Both past and future exist only as mental constructs in present consciousness, the past as memory and the future as imagination. ROBERT M. TAYLOR, ASSOC. PROFESSOR Clinical Neurology Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio...
Things are different now. Rock has become commercialized, and the performers want to make money. Yet there is also a younger scene keeping the spirit alive. Rock 'n' roll is about equality. Some Chinese are slaves to Western culture; others look East. I say f___ all of them and be yourself. That's what I like about rock 'n' roll. You can talk straight...
...will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas. But that was also the plight of Descartes, Locke, Hume and his other favorite Western philosophers...