Word: flee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people . . . are kept in prison and tortured to death . . . I suppose I could have told you all this in Dresden, but then your wife, Trude, what with her excellent connections with the Soviet authorities, would have seen to it that I wouldn't have had the chance to flee to West Berlin...
Those who are well read in these recondite fields will find their reading boiled down to generalizations which are part routine observation, part unbending classification. Those who are not so well read will flee to the mercifully straight evidence of more self-circumscribed historians to escape such tortured, huffy judgments as this one on "the cult of irrationality" (in literature, Hemingway, Faulkner, et al.) : "Its inspiration was science, and it raised the question whether any philosophy could be longer tolerated in a universe wholly without meaning and as indifferent to any meaning that the paltry mind of man might read...
Obviously this is a palpable injustice. The well-meaning protagonists of Messrs. Gould and Kostalanetz are abrogating what in recent months has become known as Freedom of Silence. This means simply that a "captive audience," a group which cannot flee or refuse to attend, damn well has a right to think or talk or remain silent as it wills. It does not have to consume the "Zampa Overture" with the mashed turnips. Kirkland House members will tonight be given an opportunity t defeat by petition this nefarious incursion on their rights. They should...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...
...Giraudoux pokes merciless fun at literal-mindedness, practical wisdom, bureaucratic palaver. Yet he knows, and expresses with the sad sparkle of his wit, that man needs feet even more than wings, and must accept reality to survive. But there is yet another turn of the wheel: man need neither flee reality nor accept it; he can deliberately transform, it, as the girl's young suitor does, squeezing undreamed-of poetry out of his highly prosaic...