Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fundamental consideration when evaluating the present security program: employment by the Government is a privilege and not a right. The well-being of 165 million Americans must be considered basic. When the loyalty of a Government employee is questionable in the least degree, sufficient ids for immediate dismissal exist...
...birth date is unknown. No copy of his autograph is known to exist, and none of his paintings was signed. The only completely reliable contemporary reference to him appears in documents drawn up only three years before his death in 1510. What is known is that when he died in Venice from the plague, at about the age of 33, the gentle beauty of paintings like his famous Tempest had established such a vogue for scenes of Arcadian reverie that a decade later, even Titian was still turning them out to meet the customers' demands...
...taken care of with a few foolish quotes from current Soviet sources about the unearthly beauty of family life in the forthcoming Communist order. But a student of the language of Communism should also know Marx's opinion that among the proletarians the family practically does not exist (or in any case is a device for capitalist exploitation of their children) and among the bourgeoisie is merely a mask for prostitution...
...over the place. A dismal caricature, you understand, and nothing but talk . . . To simulate Lady Brett, however, as long as she's in fashion, Shirley talks free and necks on a rigidly graduated scale . . . She can find no guidance anywhere . . . In literature her problem doesn't exist. The old novels are all about Jane Austen and Dickens heroines ... And the new novels are all more or less about Brett Ashley, who sleeps with any guy who really insists, but is a poetic pure tortured soul at heart. This leaves Shirley squarely in the middle. What...
...devastating heel-a West Side version of a Scott Fitzgerald hero-rarely rings true. But his deterioration and his ultimate meaning are convincing. "He takes the current myths for solid facts," says one character about him. "It never occurs to him that the Oedipus complex really doesn't exist, that it is a piece of moralistic literature. He's as orthodox as your own father, Marjorie, in his fashion . . . making a life's work out of being dogmatic, clever, supercilious-and inwardly totally confused and wretched...