Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second major symptom about today's youth, according to Lindner, lies in "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies. And frequently this solitude was creative. From it some times came the dreams, the hopes and the soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless...
...about love, mothers-in-law in the way, young men who are great lads in a barroom but boobs in the spooning parlor, priests who know the human score but have better sense than to add it up. In The Little Mother, a young girl learns one of the deepest truths about middle-class life: "Respectability, far from being a dull and quiet virtue, was like walking a tightrope." And in The Mad Lomasneys, an older man invites the fury of his girl by denying she knows anything about love. Says O'Connor: "At the age of eighteen...
...Dartmouth course does achieve a very significant goal: every student, regardless of his interests, is thoroughly subjected to current affairs, even if he does not always appreciate their deepest significance. Not everyone agrees exactly as to what these affairs should be. Most concur, however, that a great issue is a problem which has a "moral core as well as historical depth, meaning for the present land a projection into the future...
...radio voice of Pierre Mendès-France rang out across France. "I am conscious as I tackle this question that it touches the deepest chords in our national feeling. Not only does it divide Frenchmen among themselves, but it tears each one within himself...
...World War I becomes in A Fable a restless residue of the Faulknerian imagination. A volunteer in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918, Faulkner did not get beyond flight training. In A Fable, however, he writes about air combat, the danger and boredom of infantry fighting, the deepest contemplations of generals, with a confidence that suggests he has experienced all of them simultaneously...