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Word: greatnesse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Survival is the question. Most budding poets soon wilt and retire rather than risking sanity in a quixotic struggle to capture and liberate something in themselves. Those who continue probably have no choice. Ironically, that is the only way they can survive. Meanwhile, aspiring writers are stricken with self-doubt...

Author: By James P. Frosch, | Title: From the Shelf The Advocate | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

In a way this foolish little book serves only to exalt the greatness of Hamlet, because Hamlet, written in that wonderful time before people put critical labels on things, encompasses all of the theories and a great deal more. When facing a work of genius, criticism can only "take a...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: The Theatregoer Hamlet | 12/13/1969 | See Source »

According to Christian moral theology, the self-awareness of sin and guilt is a necessary prologue to sanctity; in the prism of psychoanalysis, self-discovery is seen as the first step toward sanity. Individuals are not identical with nations, but sometimes they are analogous. And thus it can be argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Evil: The Inescapable Fact | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

WOODY was a living vindication of Blake's belief that Beauty is Exuberance. This humane, generous, ebullient teacher and artist possessed no fugitive greatness. No man can hope to surpass G. Wallace Woodworth's inextinguishable charity and concern to bring people into loving commerce with the most capaciously communicative of...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Concertgoer Ein Deutsches Requiem | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

Almost by definition, a city can be great only at the expense of other cities that are less than great. If the power, money and creativity that are now centered in London were divided with Birmingham, Birmingham would not become great, but London would be irretrievably lessened. A delight to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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