Modern Mind

and genetics, 475; and Nazism, 436; persecution of Russian intellectuals, 315–25; socialist opposition to, 472–3;
see also
Josef
Stalin in Index of Names, People and Places
Stanford-Binet test
see
Intelligence Quotient
stars
see
stellar evolution
‘steady state’ theory, 508
stellar evolution, 573
stream-of-consciousness, 28
string theory, 739, 741, 743–5, 756
stromatolites, 685
structuralism, 629–30, 632, 634
students: rebellion, 536–7;
see also
Youth
suburbia: and social life, 438
Sunday Circle (Lukács Circle, Budapest), 180–3
superstring revolution, 743–5
Surrealism, 164, 203–5, 510
survival of the fittest, 41–3;
see also
evolution
symbolic logic, 102
Synanon, 598
syphilis, 103–7
technology: and individual control, 4; Mumford on, 288
technostructure (corporations), 590–1
tectonic plates (continental), 554
television, 211, 219, 546–8, 757
temperament (intellectual), 75–6
Theatre of the Absurd, 513
Theatre of Cruelty, 641
thelyplasm, 33
theology:
see
religion; Vatican; individual theologians in Index of Names, People and Places
theoretical physics, 93
Theory of Everything, 742–3, 764
theosophy, 64
therapeutic nihilism, 12, 27–8, 30
therapy-religions, 598–601
Thermodynamics, Laws of, 21–2, 32
Third World cultures: teaching of in USA, 729–32
thorium, 91
thymine, 480
time: real and physics, 66
Time Zero (singularity), 570–1
totalitarianism, 435–6, 473
tradition-directed people, 433
tranquilisers, 501, 597
transcendent pictures, 63
transistors, 476–7
transmission control protocols (TCPs), 737–8
transplants (organ), 659–60
transuranic elements, 394, 397
tree rings
see
dendrochronology
tripartite division (Freudian), 13
tuberculosis (consumption), 103–5, 662
turbines: in jet engines, 269
U-Project (Germany), 400
uncertainty principle, 261
unconscious, the, 13, 139–41, 237, 626, 629, 664–5, 758; collective, 140–1;
see also
Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung in Index of Names, People and Places
underclass, 699;
see also
poverty
unemployment: and corporate industrial system, 691; eliminated in Nazi Germany, 341, 383; post-war fluctuations, 390; of US blacks, 523; World War II affects, 342, 387
universalism, 27
universe: beginning of, 508, 569–71, 740–1, 751, 755; expanding, 264–6, 755
universities: and creative ideas, 767; criticisms of in USA, 720–2, 729–32; expansion, 212, 503, 760; increased in Britain, 537; influence in Germany of, 26, 74; internet in, 739; modern development, 73–5, 78, 281; and technological innovation, 650;
see also
countries and individual institutions in Index of Names, People and Places
uranium, 91, 393–6, 398–400
US minorities, racial (negroes; blacks; Afro-Americans): at Black Mountain College, 355; and colonialism, 527; cultural influence on artists, 60; economic/social deprivation, 653–5; education of, 533–4, 655; emancipation and integration, 519; and ‘Harlem Renaissance’, 215–17, 458; and intelligence, 206, 526, 533–5; and Johnson’s Great Society, 522–3; and legal equality, 644–5; and literary canon, 726–8; music and literature, 458–61, 528–9, 705; origins, 556–7; sporting prowess, 329; and US civil rights movement and direct action, 391, 523–4, 528–9, 644; and US racial attitudes, 108–12, 117, 124, 198, 206, 217, 282–3, 390–1, 458, 526, 654–5; war service, 390; women, 705
venereal diseases, 104–5
vernalization, 319–20
viruses: and medical research, 660–1
vitamins, 180
welfare state, 383–5, 444
West: dominance in modernist ideas, 760–2
white dwarfs, 572–3
will to power, 40
women: black, 705; and Christian belief, 604; de Beauvoir on, 422–3; liberation movement, 529–32; in non-Western cultures, 761; portrayed by Klimt, 35; in US literature, 705;
see also
feminism
work and workplace, 437–8, 440, 443, 447
World War I (1914–18): conduct and effects, 144–52, 156–8, 168; literary response to, 186–201; and poetry, 152–6
World War II (1939–45): effect on economies, 342, 388–90; effect on political allegiances, 386; effect on science, 375; outbreak, 361; progress of, 367, 386
World Wide Web, 738
wormholes (in space), 741
X-ray spectroscopy, 479
X-rays, 49, 479
youth: and counterculture, 595; and Komsomol, 293, 317; and Red Guards, 539–40
see also
students
Zen, 597
Zionism, 45;
see also
Jews

About the Author
     
    PETER WATSON was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome. He has written for the
Sunday Times,
the
Times,
the
New York