Word: formlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unamuno's countrymen adored him without ever quite understanding him. And Unamuno, in truth, is not easy to understand. Words often poured from him in a formless rush; he was hostile to reason. The pure rationalist, he insisted, is no more fit to comment on life than the eunuch is fit to judge a beauty contest. In Tragic Sense of Life he wrote, "The mind seeks what is dead, for what is living escapes it; it seeks to congeal the flowing stream in blocks of ice. In order to understand anything, it is necessary to kill...
...Johnson, and his wife. Next, a limousine carrying Caroline and John cruised out the gate. Then the White House driveway filled, gatepost to gatepost, with a moving mass. Like a slow, powerful river, it poured out onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and not until then did the makeup of that seemingly formless crowd come clear...
ANCHOR: "When God set about to create heaven and earth-the world being then a formless waste, with darkness over the seas and only an awesome wind sweeping over the water -God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light...
...Chance They Took. In fact, none of those explanations really described the meaning of the march. It was informal, often formless-yet it somehow had great dignity. It had little of the sustained suspense of an astronaut shoot or a national political convention-but it built, despite moments of boredom and restlessness-to an emotion-draining climax. It probably changed few minds that had already been made up; the chances were that integrationists would remain integrationists and segregationists would remain segregationists. It was in the probable effects on the conscience of millions of previously indifferent Americans that the march might...
...Welcome Pressure. Like every revolution, the Negro revolution is formless. It is, as ex-Slave Douglass said it must be, an oceanic tide of many waters. The voices of hatred are in the minority-so far. But they often drown out softer, equally determined and far more effective Negro voices...