Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This endless night! (Questa notte senza fine!) I am exhausted. I can't bear it. O God in heaven, have mercy on us. Will this weeping never end? What can I do to help her, My darling, my beloved? (Cara mia, cara...
...distinctly sleazy case in point is The Rich Man's Table (Knopf; 273 pages; $23), an expertly written novel by Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love, that rips off the life of Bob Dylan. Most readers will recall that Dylan was a scraggly haired harmonica player with an edgy voice and an edgy mind, a Jewish kid from Minnesota who changed his name from, let's see, Zimmerman? And later converted to Christianity for a few years. The character who dominates Spencer's novel was born Stuart Kramer, transformed himself as "Luke Fairchild," and came from "the Midwest," not specifically...
Nonetheless, expediency caused Sanger to distance herself from her radical past; for instance, she used soft phrases such as "family planning" instead of her original, more pointed argument that the poor were being manipulated into producing an endless supply of cheap labor. She also adopted the mainstream eugenics language of the day, partly as a tactic, since many eugenicists opposed birth control on the grounds that the educated would use it more. Though her own work was directed toward voluntary birth control and public health programs, her use of eugenics language probably helped justify sterilization abuse. Her misjudgments should cause...
...taste for spectacle, his constant disdain for social and military aristocracies; his relationship with Eva Braun, who adored him; the cult of the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred of Jews, whose survival enraged him--each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclers, its biographers...
...socially." Ross has paid his dues and his reward, a senior film "Here Comes Your Man," named after a Pixies song, chronicles the end of a relationship. In order to finish in time for the screenings of student films at the Carpenter Center (beginning May 7), Ross will spend endless hours cozying up to the Steenbeck, an editing machine whose giant silver spools and clicking knobs recall a technology-gone-bad episode of The Twilight Zone. But unlike many other thesis students who feel painfully committed to their machines, Ross can think of no other place he would rather...