Word: beares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important task of the present day, but he also thinks that "The drift and thrust toward World War III is now part of the contemporary sensibility--and the defining characteristic of our time." He believes that all significant problems of contemporary man and society bear upon the issues of war and peace...
Furthermore, appeals to the real unconscious will usually stimulate strong defensive reactions, Bauer said. Brain-washing which uses these appeals may work when brought to bear on one person by many, but it will probably be impossible in the opposite situation, he concluded...
...safest thing to be is a Cabinet Minister. If Boss Ho Chi Minh likes the man, he is apt to keep him around, no matter how many mistakes he makes. But the performance of Finance Minister Le Van Hien was too much even for the indulgent Ho to bear...
Diana's worship at Vraona had a special feature: little girls dressed as bears. According to an ancient legend, a couple of Athenian juvenile delinquents killed Diana's holy bear, and she sent a pestilence to punish their city. To square themselves with Diana, the citizens agreed to send five-to ten-year-old girls of noble families to Vraona to substitute for the murdered bear. No one seems to know whether these noble nymphets took part in the orgies mentioned by Aristophanes. Dr. Papadimitriou doubts it. They appear to have been housed, and perhaps chaperoned...
...disabilities, From the Terrace arrives on a literary scene so bleak and hackneyed that the book outruns most of the competition even while standing still. The novel it most strongly resembles is last season's front-running By Love Possessed, though O'Hara's workmanlike sentences bear no resemblance to Cozzens' involuted maze. Like Cozzens, O'Hara tries to strike a balance sheet on a man's life at the mid-century mark. With Cozzens, O'Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation...