Word: contemplatione
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That brought a defense for Dick & friends from one Sheelagh Hardie: "Surely Dick, having emerged unscathed from fire and water, from the perilous lift-shaft and the homicidal ape, need fear little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound...
Neither the grey stone building nor its inhabitants had an air of contemplation, isolation or monasticism. The delegates laughed, quipped, swapped stories of their experiences like young returned war veterans.
"War in the future is in the hands of the scientists. . . . Just as you had the old knight in armor leveled by the first man who got hold of a gun, now you have got to a stage where a country could win a war despite its size. It could...
The Best of Each? Koestler's own preference, like that of most current prophets, is far less pungent and persuasive than his analysis. He has no wish to obliterate the teachings of the Yogi and the Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of...
. . . You have said in substance that there is a basic argument now going on between communism and democracy . . . with such likelihood of disastrous outcome that the Muse of History must withdraw from the stage and leave the matter to the contemplation of Muse of Tragedy.