Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What then? Glass quoted Architect Roderick Seidenberg's suggestion that the human race "will remain encased in an endless routine and sequence of events, not unlike that of the ants, the bees and the termites." In short, man will be in danger of massive boredom and mental atrophy...
...network of lies and half-truths. The process of psychic and physical torture erode his integrity, and eventually his inquisitors are able to persuade him to sign sentences and paragraphs that finally accumulate into a phony confession branding him a "Trotskyite" and a U.S. spy. It requires a seemingly endless 138 minutes for his interrogation and torture to resolve into the obligatory conclusion: mock trial, conviction and eventual release after the post-Stalin housecleaning...
...have. I grieve, however, at the greed and selfishness that labor unions are displaying while doing such great harm to those they represent, to say nothing of the forgotten Americans on pensions that are static. I certainly am not going to "Buy American" simply to satisfy the unions' endless greed and penalize myself in quality and value to do so. Indeed, my only consideration will be the best buy for the money. This, I believe, is the American...
...Santa Paula as the rain pours down, our loved ones deftly plucking the last packages of cigarettes from our nerveless hands. We are to spend almost two weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...