Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEM, by Joyce Carol Gates. One family's battle to escape the economic and spiritual depression of urban American life is the theme of this novel by the author of A Garden of Earthly Delights and Expensive People.
But he could not really escape the war. Several hundred demonstrators in the wealthy, conservative area awaited him in front of the Gouverneur Morris Inn. They held candles and chanted "Peace now." A few held up placards reading EFFETE SNOBS FOR PEACE.
CHARITIES. Going along with the House, the committee agreed to end the unlimited charitable deductions that allow some extremely wealthy people to escape payment of all or nearly all federal income taxes. This provision has some undesirable side effects. While it would prevent charitable contributions for purposes of reducing taxes...
Freedom, then, is what the book is finally about. Fashionably, but compellingly, Fowles sees freedom not as an escape but a return-a return to a more natural order, to a more fundamental morality of self-discovery and self-fulfillment. The same is true, Fowles seems to be saying, of...
Prisons, torture, suppression of free speech and press are unhappily not unknown in non-communist countries either, and some thinking people still contend that Stalin was better than Hitler, though as more becomes known about Stalin the difference seems to become less and less clear. It may be hoped, however...