Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funny. He writes of a world gone mad. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub and The Futurological Congress are tales set in future societies that no longer know where they have come from or where they are going. Indeed, they no longer know why they exist...
...another department reports on the reports. Secretaries keep them in order and librarians store them in archives. Higher-ups order them studied, or declare them confidential. Pentagon Three is called simply "The Building." Its actions are all theoretically directed against the "Antibuilding"--the enemy. But the Antibuilding does not exist, and all the paper-shuffling only serves to deny any whispers that perhaps the Building has no purpose. The real enemy is the non-Building. The ultimate heresy is to suggest the truth--that all the orders and plans and reports only create a fiction of purpose, that the officials...
There is some question whether the far-flung and decentralized Mafia still has a boss of all bosses (many organized-crime authorities argue that it is more an honorific than an actual executive post). But if the position does exist, is Galante...
...seemed to be functioning well. By week's end Serrano was joking that despite his Muscovite kidney, "I don't speak Russian yet." His doctors were equally elated. Rubin, for one, envisioned a day when organs are regularly shuttled across the seas to fulfill needs wherever they exist. Said he: "What better way to bring the world together than through medicine...
SUCH A SENSATIONAL best-seller must have some redeeming qualities; but if they exist, one must look further than the plot to find them. Raise the Titanic! disproves the common notion that truth is stranger than fiction, for the outlandish twists and turns of Cussler's novel would defy detection by even the most dogged Woodstein. Loosely translated, the book is the inspirational saga of how a top-secret group of brilliant government physicists devises a scheme to save the world from nuclear destruction, realizes the plan requires large quantities of a mysterious element unknown to even the best high...