Margaret Mead31 definitions
The America (n.) has no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
A City (n.) is where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.
A City (n.) is where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
The City (n.) is essential to the soul of the nation as a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. It demands institutions such as universities, art schools, libraries, museums such that there is continual fresh encounters with new talent, keen minds or gifted specialist.
Co-figurative society (n.) is a society wherein neither the old are made irrelevant nor are the young are held back from social and technological change. Rather everyone is learning from one another.
Culture (n.) is the total shared, learned behavior of a society or subgroup.
The Father (n.) is a social invention.
Human nature (n.) is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Jealousy (n.) is not a barometer of the depth of love but of the degree of the lover's insecurity.
Leisure (n.) is inextricably interdependent with the cultivation of human capacities.
Man (n.) is the expendable sex, because while women were necessary for the tribe's next generation, fighting fell to men.
The Nuclear family (n.) is the impossible experiment of asking an immediate family to live all by itself in a box with no relatives and no support.
