Word: fullest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short as possible. We should think about the first column ahead of time and savor things more when we have them. To be close to death gives you a new awareness of the preciousness of life, and the extreme tenuousness of it. You must live every day to the fullest, as though you had a short supply-because you do. I said that glibly for years, but I didn't know how intensely one should live...
...timing of the leadership reshuffle was masterly. Scheduled to make historic visits to West Germany in May and to the U.S. in June, Brezhnev will now take off with the fullest possible domestic backing for his pursuit of detente. The two Politburo members dismissed (the official phrase was "relieved of duty")-Pyotr Shelest and Gennady Voronov-have been notable opponents of his diplomatic initiatives, as well as of some of his domestic efforts. Among the four men promoted -Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, KGB (secret police) Chief Yuri Andropov and Leningrad Party Secretary Grigory Romanov-at least...
...Hesse has so many clingers-on he can't be passed off lightly. If nothing else, his stasis may have helped him understand his simple viewpoints to their fullest. Most of us at one time or another, have looked to Hesse in the small hope that he may have had something there. Stories of Five Decades doesn't demand to be read; neither does it deserve to be forgotten entirely. It may help explain the curious cult it has engendered...
...Ones is not a story in any traditional sense, but the analytic creation of a paradigm for the base of our entire existence. However battered and strained the term is, the end of this relentless analysis is unavoidably the absurd. Even when the notion has been maintained to its fullest, a final explanation continues to elude it, and instead in its very absence mocks the exactness with which the analysis has been conducted...
...easy one; as Szell put it, "the borderline is very thin between clarity and coolness, self-discipline and severity." Nevertheless, to appeal only to the listener's 'gut reactions,' (however tastefully) and his ability to discern technical proficiency, is to offer, unnecessarily, something less than the fullest possible musical experience...