Word: boundlessness
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...they been in pain, I might have been able to stay, as an existential being crying out against an oppressive world I did not really hope to change. And then I would have been justified in quoting Camus. True, one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but only while he experiences "boundless grief" which is "too heavy to bear...
...natural merchandiser's instinct, she pushed her first book Every Night, Josephine!-a bonbon about walking her poodle-by putting it on display in Manhattan restaurants and even a delicatessen. Today, helped by her publicist-manager-husband Irving Mansfield, she is still at it. With inexhaustible energy and boundless enthusiasm, she assaults and attracts the public in a succession of day-by-day, city-by-city publicity campaigns. A typical day recently began at 8 a.m. It included a TV show, four radio talks, two newspaper interviews, a general press conference, and a visit with Beatle John Lennon...
Despite such simplistic assumptions, Jane Jacobs succeeds as usual. Shining through every page of her book is a boundless and infectious conviction that the city is the best and noblest product of man. In one remarkable chapter she even goes so far as to reverse the traditional assumption that the first cities grew out of agricultural communities. Not at all. Citing archaeological evidence, Jane Jacobs argues that the first cities were founded on trade and actually helped create organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas...
...they been in pain, I might have been able to stay, as an existential being crying out against an oppressive world I did not really hope to change. And then I would have been justified in quoting Camus. True, one must imagine Sisyphus happy, but only while he experiences "boundless grief" which is "too heavy to bear...
...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the play's second act, Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot identify with the play's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character say to Alan, "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...