Word: contentedness
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Modern agriculture leaves him deeply troubled. He marvels at how massive surpluses of corn, made possible by the use of noxious chemical fertilizers and pesticides, have led to the rise of huge feedlots where cattle are pumped full of antibiotics and corn-based feed to hasten them to their fate...
It’s an ultimate rite of passage. On the Thursday before spring break, blocking groups from Weld to Wigglesworth rip open their housing letters and sprint to Annenberg to celebrate or commiserate with their future Housemates. But for freshmen who end up “floating�...
McEwan followed his 2002 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and--unusually for him--happiness. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome town house. He's a contented man, or he would be if his well-being...
McEwan followed his 2001 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and ? unusual for him ? on happinesss, too. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome townhouse. In all, he's a contented man, or he would be if...
The father of the Theater of the Absurd, Ionesco is hardly writing of angst-ridden and fantastic Kafkaesque metamorphoses—in fact, quite the contrary is true. By the end of the play, it is the single remaining human form that seems grotesque in comparison with the peaceful and...