Word: abyssal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...
...platform comes closest to a national program: a strong government and army, a strong France that would swing more weight in the Atlantic pact. Cried De Gaulle in Paris last week: "Rally around me! The responsibility which history imposed upon me yesterday to save the nation from the abyss today commands me to intervene directly to show the way and lead the nation." De Gaulle, say his critics, has not made specifically clear, however, where he wants to lead the nation...
...what they saw. Confided Cucchi: "That country doesn't interest me half as much as it used to." Agreed Magnani: "My honesty has been too much exploited. Between what I saw in Poland and what I have been told in the Communist propaganda sheets, there is an abyss...
...like another, for to Sartre, who is less novelist than cut-rate philosopher, it is ideas, not people, that light the doubtful way along the human road. And to Sartre it is the truth as well as the fact that for France the road to freedom led through the abyss of defeat and despair...
...Troubled Sleep, Sartre's characters get to know the bottom of the abyss very well. The news of Volume III of his tetralogy is that some of Sartre's Frenchmen are beginning to see a way out. Says one of them, a Christian: "Let us abandon the idea that our defeat was the effect of chance . . . When a man believes he is the innocent victim of a catastrophe and sits wringing his hands, unable to understand what has happened to him, is it not good news for him to be told that he is expiating his own fault...