Word: existing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike's last week to give one of the sternest speeches that New York had heard in a long time. "The government of this city," he said, "will not allow the power brokers in our city, or any special interest, to dictate the terms under which it will exist in New York. The paramount issue confronting us today is whether New York City can be intimidated. I say it cannot and will...
...McCabe argues that the new morality has no criteria to distinguish love from what is really self-interest. "How do you know that what you are doing is loving?" he asks. McCabe also charges that situationism fails to consider that man is always acting within a community that cannot exist without...
...stripped to the bone by the howling winds of life, a man strides past another on a barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
...skeleton rattling brought to mind the recent screen satire, Cat Ballou, but Mr. Oppenheimer's heroes are far more perverted, far too bitter. He doesn't laugh at the foibles of the Old West, he indicates that they were part of the rotten-to-the-core morality that has existed and does exist in America...
...reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe and then eight violinists from Budapest who begin with the "Hungarian Rhapsody" and end with "Flight of the Bumblebee." But excellent though the details and lines may be, they often seem to exist merely for their own excellence and there is not a great continuity to the piece. The beginning is slow and the narrative between the dialogue could also be improved. But on the whole, it is a striking piece of student work and is indeed "worth reading...