Word: existence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Ted's adventure in Selma, I felt a little left out. If a civil rights worker's credo was: I am harrassed, therefore I exist, what was I doing? Why didn't any rednecks resent my presence and want to threaten...
...problems started in Meridian. Meridian is a sprawling, ugly town. The major reason for its existence seems to be that it graphically proves that towns need neither culture nor beauty to exist. Meridian also provides a showcase for some of the raunchiest elements of Southern culture, and for that, perhaps, it is worth-while...
...bizarre novels (Trot, Seconds, The Tour), Ely commands a novelist's range of skillful settings. What he lacks is the final power to shake and shock the reader by suddenly opening a pit of darkness beneath him, or by fleetingly convincing him that things like werewolves do exist. Ely's style is too smoothly controlled for that, and perhaps the age is too secular...
...would hope that the administration is equally eager for communication and that it is not going to isolate itself. A dialogue can only exist in an atmosphere of mutual respect...
...have no knowledge of what President Pusey told Hitch," Ford said last night. "Our rule definitely does exist. The University of California apparently thought it meant just two guest lectures...