Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of deep beatitude - a strange sweet foretaste of Nirvana -Max Beerbohm) BLESSEDNESS suggests the deep joy of pure affection or of acceptance by a god (the blessedness of the saints) BLISS may apply to a complete and assured felicity (all my life's bliss from thy dear life was given -Emily Bronte) (now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and with spirits elated to rapture -Jane Austen...
...forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings. Fears of women, fumbles at sex. A slow, sick drift of disappointed desire that bears him insidiously back to the dear, safe days when he was a pretty little boy among pretty little girls who adored him and made no demands. But now he is no longer a little boy, and when he tries to behave like one, the games get stranger and stranger, till one day he finds himself alone in the woods with a ten-year-old girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child...
After the war, Mende studied law and political science, earning the doctorate dear to middle-class Germans. He strayed into politics almost by accident in 1945, when one of FDP's founders recruited him for party chores. Mende's eloquence and organizational ability propelled him rapidly to the party's top echelons. Though the Free Democrats pose as successors to the old German liberal parties, Erich Mende is by instinct and outlook a conservative who has turned to good advantage his distaste for extremes. By contrast, the party leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals...
...niche had been prepared for Foster's urn in the Kremlin wall, Communism's Valhalla. But portly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an old comrade of Foster's who had flown over from the U.S. for the funeral, had other ideas. "From you, dear comrades, we received his ashes," she intoned at funeral's end, "and we shall return them to our country for burial in the industrial center of Chicago where he lived and worked for many years...
Four years have passed in joyful ways?Wouldst stay these old times dear...