Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pakistan, mobs cried "Death to Ayub!" in protest against their President's neglect of long-festering economic and social problems. Germany, Italy and Japan were struck by the plague...
...daily arena of a marriage gone irretrievably bad. She examines relentlessly the small social grievances, the resentful pinprick rivalries that gradually engulf and demean everyone concerned. In the orgiastic 1960s, Ruskin's sexual abstinence would be regarded for Effie as a fate only slightly better than death. Effie lived in an age inclined to view "all that" more as a duty than a cheerful privilege, however, and she knew little of sex when she married...
...make a God of me!" Kazantzakis cried out when, as a four-year-old, he was first made aware of death. In his most popular novel, Zorba the Greek, he divided the human longing for a quiet, withdrawn existence and its counterpart, passionate involvement with life, into two separate characters, joyfully granting Zorba, who lusts for life, the final triumph. In his greatest novels, fictionalized versions of the lives of St. Francis and Christ, he portrayed both as men deeply drawn to the fleshly world but agonizingly aware that they must eventually transcend it. While he was writing The Last...
...insolent belligerent against Substance. I do not feel possessed by any illusion. I enter into all traps-like some extremely elastic rat, which enters the trap, eats the mixture set to catch it, and then goes on to other traps, well aware that the last trap-the trap of Death-is there waiting...
Evil has fallen on bad days. In an age of H-bombs and death camps, its influence in the world has hardly diminished. But men's ways of thinking and talking about evil have altered. The fine old dramatic metaphors, from the Serpent in the Garden to Gustave Doré's sulfurous Lucifer, have lost their power to terrify. Yet modern substitutes are equally unsatisfying. Social scientists reduce evil to data. Intellectuals expose its banality. The public seems able to consider the demonic only in the harmless guise of Rosemary's Baby. Like nearly everything these days...