Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the changes are more cosmetic than cosmic, any loosening of East Germany is an improvement, an ambiguous mood summed up in West German Chancellor Erhard's reaction to the pass agreement: "The German people will certainly feel genuine joy and satisfaction, but there's no cause for jubilation...
TRUE BLUE (Atlantic). A specialist in "soul" like Ray Charles, with whom he played for five years, Alto Saxophonist Hank Crawford performs some of his own pieces (Shake APlenty, Skunky Green) with a small, well-integrated band. Nothing cosmic, just cheerful blues, short, catchy and swinging...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in a discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it isn't obvious at all, but just as an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...weariness in the West," he writes, "a weariness with humanism itself which underlies all the movements of our world, a weariness with the striving to be men." And he sees these writers in love with that weariness saying in effect: "Let the focused consciousness blur into the cosmic night; let the hallucinatory monsters bred of fragmented consciousness prowl that night again; let the perilously sustained absurdity of the 'soul' be abandoned...
...workers discover they will have to finish the shaky tower, and the reverberating interior of the church in a storm. But here again Golding's metaphors tend to defeat his purpose. They fail in the long descriptions due to overabundance (in two pages of storm description one sees cosmic wildcats, black crows, sails, masts, stone shoulders, Satan, and clouds of devils). And often they fail to evoke anything because they are simply overblown ("the sunrays wheeled about him;" "the spark and shatter...