Word: descend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orwell, political issues were moral issues. He understood that peace and social justice would descend on the world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist...
...saying only, "It's curiosity that motivates me." Nonetheless, Night Journey, one of his most radical paintings, says something more. The title is taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. To Koestler, the artist exists on a trivial plane of daily existence, but he must descend to a harrowing private Hades if he is to find fresh inspiration. Koestler quotes Sir Thomas Browne that "man is 'that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.' " Night Journey seems...
...from whence this outrageous outburst of outgoings? The flushings of my toilet training stage that now descend upon my head, the leavings...
...from whence this outrageous outburst of outgushings? The flushings of my toilet training stage that now descend upon my head, the leavings...
...orange and grapefruit growers are getting not only advice but also improved equipment from the Israelis. More than 5,500 Arabs have been put to work patching and widening the Strip's bumpy roads. Another growing source of revenue is the influx of Israeli tourists, who descend on Gaza to snap pictures of rusty Egyptian tanks and other war trophies...