Word: exists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serious for Hitler, is the fact that at present, he is tyrannizing over public opinion. Through his suppression of newspapers and his threats against those which continue to exist, he has suppressed the public expression of opposition...
...LeRoy Ripley has derived wealth and fame from his feature "Believe It Or Not," graphically reporting curiosities from all over the world. Fortnight ago the New York Evening Post was endeavoring to syndicate a similar feature, depicting marvels like the above, not yet in the world but which might exist. Title: CAN IT BE DONE...
...individualist and an intellectual; something of a philosopher, a rationalist, while still an incurable romantic. At times he spoils his impression by unrestrained, uncritical enthusiasms; and he is throughout perhaps too trusting of his demi-gods. But the book pictures a phase of life, of bohemianism, that has never existed before and may never exist again with a certain brilliance and much understanding...
Author Pirandello's thesis, ingeniously stated and restated through 268 pages, is that everyone has a multiple personality; that if anyone tries to examine deeply his own multiplicity, nonentity, possible unity, he will quickly be called a madman. "Julius Caesar, the individual, did not exist. There existed, it is true, a Julius Caesar that we know from so large a part of his life, and this one undoubtedly possesses a value incomparably greater than the others; not, however, so far as reality is concerned, please believe me when I tell you that...
Intelligent and tolerant minorities, however, existed in the United States in the early days of the nineteenth century, and they exist in Germany now. It is idle to rail against the German people, in Bishop Manning's fashion, and wonder how Goethe or Schiller could be reconciled to the illiberalism of the Nazi party. Criticism on such grounds becomes merely sanctimonious, for the evil is not in the whims of any represented majority, but in the fact that modern democracies have insufficiently represented minorities. Were the less numerous and more enlightened factions to have true proportional representation in the United...