Word: contemplatione
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As a projection, the future is now often seen in apocalyptic terms. Fate poses as "the bomb," and the cult of the mushroom cloud is, in many cases, a grand projection of private fears having nothing to do with atomic war. In contemplation of world ruin, a would-be tragic...
The Inward Eye. Politically, Schirmbeck is an annoying cafe neutralist; he indulges himself in an overcrude lampoon of U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's...
Written at the end of Schoenberg's tutelage of Webern in 1909, the work is more approachable than his later 12-tone compositions, for it is only occasional contrapuntal and moves with a melodic continuity quite different from the strict counterpoint he adopted later. Continual variation of melodic fragments creates...
Seized by one of his periodic fits of yearning for a life of contemplation, India's normally bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, 71, indiscreetly confided to a British newsman that it would be "best if I retired-best for me and best for India." So many cries of protest...
He said he had resigned only after he was assured that the affair would be handled delicately, so that his reputation would not be ruined, and the chance to become chairman of Studebaker-Packard Corp. was dangled before him. The final settlement to pay back his outside earnings, said Newberg...