Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein christened it the "lost generation," but she may have spoken too soon...
...brought up short again when an irate citizen asked how long a nearby rubbish dump was going to be permitted to burn. The city manager, who lost his sense of smell apparently as the result of a sinus infection ten years ago, did not realize that the stink penetrated even into the auditorium. When he said: "It isn't burning-the city is operating a wet dump," new hoots of laughter arose. He looked startled again, jotted down a changed opinion of how the dump smelled...
...hundreds of horses I once owned," he said, "only six are left, and now I am selling them. But it is better to live poor in a land where one can follow his faith than in a godless country. To the Communists, there is no God but Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion...
...strict, hour-by-hour adherence to sacred custom. Promptly at sundown each Friday night, the Sabbath begins, and Orthodox Jews are required to be indoors (to travel in a vehicle on the Sabbath is counted as a sin). Twenty minutes before sundown, the housewife lights the candles which will burn through the Sabbath's 24 hours; any other lights must be turned on before that time. Synagogue services are entirely in Hebrew, and men & women sit apart, with their heads covered. The Orthodox Jew is expected to study the Torah every day and to observe the dietary laws with...
...that reason the Earl of Warwick buys her from the Burgundians and insists that she must burn. But the pro-founder issue is that between Joan and her judges. In the trial scene she comes up against not only all the power of the church but all the power of the church's arguments. The grandeur of Shaw's trial rests less, in the end, on how brilliant it is than on how basic. It is the eternal clash -in politics, society, art no less than in religion-between the institution's claim to sovereignty...