Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, since white man's medicine has so far failed them, the Fore see no reason to abandon their own; they still practice tukavu when they think they can get away with...
...than a year wily Pietro Nenni, egg-bald boss of Italy's Socialist Party, has wriggled uneasily under public pressure for a merger between his forces and Giuseppe Saragat's small but influential Social Democratic Party. The question was: Did Nenni care enough about Socialist reunification to abandon his decade-old alliance with Italy's Communists...
...same novelist's magic as Trollope-the reader finds Communism hateful and absurd but still wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech by Khrushchev: ''We will abandon Communism when the shrimp learns to whistle.'' According to scientists shrimps are actually highly vocal (one, the Pistol Prawn, makes a noise like a cap pistol). Says one Grinioff character slyly at the novel's final party: "They whistle all the time-but only for each other...
Uncertainly about the time required leads in turn to another kind of uncertainty--financial uncertainty. Doubt and confusion on this score have a host of disastrous effects. Many superior men, facing unknowns here, abandon thoughts about working for a Ph.D. and realistically go off to law or the like. In the light of our pressing need for college teachers, nothing could be more underisable...
...Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...