Word: greatnesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, 400 years after the Spaniards arrived in Florida to establish the first settlement in the continental U.S., the nation's Congress paid historic hom age to the heterogeneous men who helped build the U.S. By a 76 to 18 vote, the Senate adopted a sweeping new immigration...
I came here because of the people. I came not because they have made greatness out of poverty but because they have made greatness despite it. I came because I was a teacher and knew many children more worth knowing, more worth admiring, and (in their promise of future urgency...
This century is likely to expire before qualified men find Nikos Kazantzakis' true place in the pantheon of literature. His claims on greatness must await the patient perspective of time. He wrote eight novels, of which three-Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion and Freedom or Death-are well...
Bayreuth's soul searchers today are 60% non-German, of whom a large proportion are wealthy Jews and Frenchmen, the two groups Wagner professedly cared for least, but who now happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard...
The Roman philosopher Seneca came to a sad end. Spurred by patriotism, he came out of exile to tutor Emperor Claudius' unstable stepson Nero and was rewarded for his pains several years later when his onetime student ordered him to commit suicide. At least Nero recognized greatness; ordinary mortals...