Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Female Heart. She spoke clearly and calmly, in a Brooklyn accent. She was not a Communist, not a spy-simply a victim of that Victorian malady, unhappy platonic love. She had first met the Russian, Gubichev, on Labor Day weekend, 1948, in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. They found themselves eyeing the same cubist painting, had begun criticizing it and then had wandered on through the gallery together...
...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...
Seniors today face several blocks to achieving that inner peace, he added, such as "the massive materialism of our country. . . . George Santayana paid us the compliment of saying that if he looked into the heart of a man and did not find kindness there he would know he was not an American. But our yard-sticks are patterned to measure things rather than ideas...
...heart of Mr. Hoover's misunderstanding, as demonstrated in the rest of paragraph eight, lies in his statement that "The FBI does not sanction and is unaware of 'scare' tactics, as alleged." This was, in fact, one of the primary lessons for writing the story. The CRIMSON had hoped that Mr. Hoover would severly spank his errant agents, not rash to their defense. Williams S. Fairfield, (For the Editors...
...Britain 1984 A.D., no one would have suspected that Winston and Julia were capable of crimethink (dangerous thoughts) or a secret desire for ownlife (individualism). After all, Party-Member Winston Smith was one of the Ministry of Truth's most trusted forgers; he had always flung himself heart & soul into the falsification of government statistics. And Party-Member Julia was outwardly so goodthinkful (naturally orthodox) that, after a brilliant girlhood in the Spies, she became active in the Junior Anti-Sex League and was snapped up by Pornosec, a subsection of the government Fiction Department that ground out happy...