Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that men are willing to die for, beyond self-interest, tends more or less obscurely to justify that fate by giving it a foundation in dignity: Christianity for the slave, the nation for the citizen, Communism for the worker...
Petra Kipphoff, Associate Literary Editor of Die Zeit, while he agreed basically with O'Tuama, felt that moralists should not be universally condemned "because many of them act with the best interests of their communities at heart...
...Soviet bloc. As Marxism proved less and less relevant to the economic and social problems of contemporary society, Soviet ideologues came to realize that they could no longer be solved in class-war terms. As the old terror abates but never entirely vanishes, as the old dogmas die but never get buried, intellectuals in Russia and Eastern Europe increasingly feel as "alienated" from their own societies as some of their Western counterparts. When British Poet Stephen Spender recently told a gathering of Polish writers that what he wanted to see most of all was a Communist, a voice from...
...that the Finzi-Continis have chosen to inhabit, he breaks off with Micol, begins to live a life on his own. A few years later, he witnesses the final destruction of the family: Alberto succumbs to a malignant disease; Micol and her parents are deported to Germany, presumably to die in the Nazis' gas chambers...
Chagall's reaction to all this is to work harder. "He takes so many commissions so that he will not have time to die," says a New York dealer and longtime friend. Although Chagall does not seek them out, he now finds himself engulfed with the monumental public commissions that rarely come to crown the career of a great artist. Only in his 60s did he learn to stain glass. Since then, in a torrent of production, he has done two windows for the Metz Cathedral, followed by twelve windows for the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue...