Word: greatnesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SO wrote an authentic American hero of the moment he contemplated his first parachute jump. As the star of a barnstorming aerial circus, he became known as "Daredevil Lindbergh" long before he flew the Atlantic. In his writing he came close to describing the indescribable spirit of adventure that is...
In Royal Hunt Shaffer has tackled some of man's profoundest problems: God, Faith, Hope-Despair, Joy-Pain, Greed, Honor. In the Introduction to the printed text, he states some of his premises: "What is most distressing for me in reading history is the way man constantly trivialises the immensity...
His hands trembling, Willig lit a cigarette and paused before shooting the fourth ball. He was thinking about a game just a week before on which he had scored 1800 points on the third ball--and tilted. He was thinking of the pool tall in Brooklyn where he had pushed...
One can only bemoan the fate of this poor play, too intellectual for Broadway and too epic for anywhere else. Still Michael Cacoyannis, so promising in the past, can shy away from greatness only with shame. For unless this production is reworked to achieve its potential, The Devils will remain...
At all costs, we are to put national interests first, and, hopefully and incidentally, moral interests as well. Do you not, by such conclusions regarding the "moral purpose" of limited war, lay bare the hypocrisy by which we justify our action in time of war? The depth of the evil...