Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is wrong with a public attitude of self-reliant doubt? Would a country of credulous gulls be more moral? He also points a finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat one another? In the days of Tammany Hall perhaps? Or when slaveholders wrote of the self-evident truth that all men are created equal...
...Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani fueled hopes by predicting the speedy liberation of the hostages and minimizing the possibility that any would be tried as spies. Hojatolislam Ashgar Mousavi Khoeiny, a member of the parliamentary committee set up to propose conditions for the hostages' release, said the Americans might be freed early this week. But after the Sunday session of the Majlis ended in stalemate, a State Department official estimated that there was only about a 10% chance that the hostages would be home before the election, even if the debate ends favorably...
...Greeks are obsessed by tragedy. Since we invented it, we see it everywhere," Alekos' bodyguard tells the narrator the day that she meets the recently freed prisoner. "But what kind of tragedy are you talking about?" she asks him. "There is only one kind of tragedy," he responds, "and it is based on three elements that never change: love, pain, and death." And so she too grows to see tragedy in love, pain and death. Like a Greek tragedy, A Man at once raises and dismisses all questions...
This is nothing less than an artistic credo, a point that readers today can appreciate more readily than the students of Literature 311-312. The enormous success of Lolita in 1958, which freed Nabokov from teaching, made most people aware for the first time that he had practically a lifetime of such writing behind him. Had the students only known it, their professor was not only explaining Dickens or Flaubert or Kafka. With his quirky insights, his cunning traceries and meticulous diagrams, he was also charting the mind of another great novelist: himself. -By Christopher Porterfield
...carry a worn quotation from Goethe everywhere with him, in his wallet. As well he might have done: for his paintings are (in the words of Goethe's title) Dichtung und Wahrheit, poetry and truth, the dignified utterances of a near genius whose modest attachment to the commonplace freed him from triviality, though not from doubt...