Word: abyss
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...fellow man for help. His fellow woman answered, but Montale found sex to be an arm of the elemental octopus and love itself a surrogate ("your life, your blood in my veins"), not a solution. In despair, he turned away from human amenity and stared into the abyss of unbeing. In horror he demanded: "What is the name of the void that invades...
...plot is not the point. Buechner was concerned with destiny, not destinations, and Woyzeck, sensitively played by Heinrich Schweiger, is a lyric dirge to bruised humanity. The play is as durable and compassionate as the line that might have served as its epigraph: "Every man is an abyss, and you get dizzy looking into...
Steinberg's wry humor may also be a mask. In the past ten years his drawings have taken a cerebral and sometimes sobering turn. Doubt and anguish are registered by a tiny figure poised atop an enormous question mark, which is itself hovering on the edge of an abyss. Brave but hapless little Indians combat a great American sphinx...
...drown in the abyss-heaven or hell...
...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...