Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS, to a landscape which spoke of violence, to a place where the very earth seemed insane, came people grown bitter in their disappointments who themselves bore an aura of insanity. There was nothing here to take the place of lost dreams, no outlet for frustrated energy. In fact, the savagery of the place would seem an encouragement to madness. It would not be difficult to imagine the crowds of disappointed, realizing their own sameness and faced with flaming hillsides and flooding canyons, leaping like lemmings into...
Plato capped his story of Atlantis with a stern moral. For generation after generation, he related, the people "easily bore the burden, as it were, of the vast volume of their gold and other goods; and thus their wealth did not make them drunk with pride so that they lost control of themselves." But in the end that was just what did happen. The Atlanteans "lost their comeliness, through being unable to bear the burden of their possessions, and became ugly to look upon, in the eyes of him [Zeus] who has the gift of sight . . . filled as they were...
...scrawled reply: "No. I would like to see these forgeries." "When is the last time you personally endorsed a check for any reason?" "More than ten years ago." At the bottom of each page of the questionnaire was the signature "Howard R. Hughes." In addition, each page bore a set of fingerprints said to belong to Hughes...
...exhausting President and people alike. They may even be harmful politically. So many major stops are jammed into a day, and a President repeats himself like any other candidate. The merciless and omnipresent eyes and ears of TV often show him at day's end as a repetitive bore...
...fixed points" of the new sensibility. But then De Chirico's own aims switched, and the admiration was reversed. Hardly anyone in 50 years has had a kind word for De Chirico's later output. It is generally written off as the work of a self-plagiarizing bore...