Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most stimulating intellectual influences of its time. But literary and political historians will find little in Enjoyment of Living to give them an inside view of that magazine. Nor, indeed, will they find much information about any kind of American life-except Max Eastman's own. There is endless talk of his sexual and mental characteristics-an often maudlin study which is not so much a matter of enjoyment as an involved, embarrassing account of the continuous trials & errors of an uncertain and mentally harried intellectual. The book carries Eastman from his unwanted birth ("a gloom in a minister...
...destiny" rolled into one. Sidney was never ill, never daydreamed, never had a nightmare, never suffered from moral qualms or neurotic doubts. He could read and write sociological statistics day in & day out, and still have strength to work on numerous committees, coolly and tirelessly conducting "endless intrigues to persuade those in authority...
...Last week, hunched in the prisoners' dock, earphones clamped to his seemingly petrified bald head, his body weirdly stiffened (he suffers from arthritis of the spine and hardening of the arteries), he was still a perfect bureaucrat. His only concern was an efficient defense. He worked furiously, scribbling endless notes of rebuttal...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...
...Friends." In the grey stone embassy, light from the blazing chandeliers gleamed on serried ranks of vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...