Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster...
In a way, too much purity begs to be tarnished. It is only human to want to tear down that which has been built up too far. Americans have borrowed their notion of statesmanship in large part from the Romans, who emphasized dignity and piety. Perhaps they should have taken...
What makes Siam Miami run is a compulsive need for some sort of great personal achievement-despite the odds against her in a field that is far from fastidious. Neither dumb enough nor callous enough to be a mere commodity, she is nevertheless badly equipped to deal with that old...
THE FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel in her Children of Violence series, the author takes her heroine, Martha Quest, from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global...
Ambition's Reward. Since June, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (M.T.A.), which runs the road, has canceled ten to 15 trains a day. Those that do run are usually dirty, intolerably crowded-the L.I.R.R. hauls 160,000 people a day-and often unbelievably late. It is not unknown for a...