Word: elysium
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...period of the '50s, its rulers can still keep the Soviet economy humming if they will vigorously seek a more comfortable and colorful life for its people. If, as seems likely, a consumer economy is to be its destination rather than-or even en route to-a Marxist Elysium, Russia will first have to overhaul and expand its archaic marketing and distribution systems. Almost certainly
...committee is a generalist's elysium, a haven for "eccentrics" commanded to "think in new areas." If they do, the school gives them the degree of Doctor of Social Thought. The committee vaguely counts "somewhere between 20 and 25 students" on the campus; others are loose in Europe ("We hope they're working"). The motto is "freedom," and the result is one of the world's liveliest intellectual experiences...
...below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy man would die within hours-of physical deterioration. Tibetans call the mountain Chomolungma, "Mother of the World," and insist that it is the home of the gods. Why the gods would choose to live there, with Elysium at their disposal, is beyond human...
...tone, and to his continual use of literary convention as a mask. In a single poem of thirty odd lines, Horace may shift many times between elegiac intensity and utter detachment. The pleasure of reading Horace is the pleasure of sensing these transitions; Commager has smoothed the road to Elysium...
Tochter aus Elysium...