Word: genevaã
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...demonstrate. The authorial voice vanishes in the elegant telling of his tale. Do not search these pages for a final judgment of Rousseau. There is none.But there is a very descriptive account of the man’s life. Rousseau was born in 1712 when Geneva??now Switzerland’s second-largest city—was still a stand-alone republic. After an eventful but unpromising early life, he gravitated toward the Parisian philosophe culture and wrote a string of highly celebrated essays and books staking out novel positions on education, politics, society, religion and the Enlightenment...
...Spirit of Geneva?? has been a long time in filtering down to the American public. For nearly a decade—five years before and five years after the 1955 conference—the threat of instantaneous annihilation terrified an entire generation. There seemed no sense in working for an idealized future without the certainty that there was any future to work for. But, whether or not anything was accomplished during the 1955 summit negotiations, they did, in time, precipitate a marked shift in the public attitude—a relaxation of tension which is just now taking...
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