Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down flat. "I told them," he informed reporters, "that if it was satisfactory to them I had rather stay" in the Pentagon. After several more prospects had rejected the position and one contender had been unofficially vetoed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Tarr's number was drawn again. Tarr, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and at 6 ft. 6 in. perhaps the tallest member of the Nixon team, was called into the Oval Office and given the word by the President. "He said he wanted me to do it," Tarr explained...
...fifteen hours a day for an average daily wage of 80 cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane instead of the ancient little horse-drawn, wooden-wheeled carts to take the cane to the mill...
...what should remain hidden, you'll try to incite people to learn from the past and rebel, but they will refuse to believe you. You'll possess the truth, you already do; but it's the truth of a madman." Like Elie Wiesel himself, David is drawn to Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, and he is hoping to find death. Psychologically it is inconceivable to him that the Jews will not be overwhelmed as they have been in the past. "We were going to be consumed by fire once more," he predicts, "and once more...
...replied, "Life itself." Through some blessing, it is inertia of life, not of death, that now preoccupies David. He still ponders the morbid though moral question of how one can "work for the living without by that very act betraying those who are absent." But instead of being drawn toward the 6,000,000 dead, David subsumes the missing Katriel into his own life. After the victorious war, Wiesel writes, "a page has been turned. The curse has been revoked in this place and its reign terminated." There is little affirmation in the discovery, merely an awareness that "what...
...play ends, we find that the magnetic bond of combat which has continually drawn Schlink and Garga together is a product of the loneliness which each human being feels in the midst of a faceless jungle like Chicago. They must fight because they cannot communicate as people on any other terms. Brecht is showing us that we have developed a social system which-like Chicagoseparates, rather than unites, every man. "Human skin grows thicker and thicker." Schlink says, because of this system. This skin keeps people from knowing each other. The only force that pierces this, outer layer...