Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes I think I invented you, Henry. Or at least I prophesied you. Because you live what I talk about. I couldn't exist the way you do, Henry; I like my warm toast and tea and soft-boiled egg brought to me on a tray in bed each morning...But I admire you, Henry, I really...
...because a variety of forces are weakening the fascists' power. Franco died two years ago, Basque and Catalonian nationalists oppose the central government, the Church has separated from the fascists, the trade union movement has gained strength, and the present government recently gave Communist party the legal right to exist...
...casual observer of Canadian affairs is probably unaware of the cultural differences that exist between the French-Canadian and his English-speaking counterpart. Sociologists generally trace current social problems to historical origins; and Canada's problem is no exception. Until the defeat of French soldiers by the British on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 the French played the major role in developing the territory now known as Canada. In the tradition of British colonialism, the vanquished French were allowed to exist alongside their conquerors, maintaining their own language, religion, and culture. As a result Canada became a cultural mosaic...
Most of the current Schubert literature is based, as Fischer-Dieskau notes, on the documents unearthed and published in 1946 by the Austrian scholar Otto Erich Deutsch. Compared with the 1,500 letters of Beethoven that still exist, the Schubert documentation is woefully small. Use of the songs to fill in some of the "psychological gaps" is a potentially dangerous technique. Mozart, for example, produced joyous music in desperate circumstances. With Schubert, however, it seems an acceptable approach. Aside from his school teaching and boozy sessions in various Viennese inns, the composer had almost no life at all apart from...
...pleased to be known as dandies. Wearing only the latest fashions, using only the proper fork, amusing with only the most charming witticisms, they gave the best of Paris and London the pleasure of their company. To all appearances, the dandy of 18th and 19th century cities seemed to exist for others only, for the sake of appearances alone. Yet anyone so concerned with his own facade is of course really concerned with himself, and behind the public image of the dandy always lies the private person...