Word: journey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey has taken him from neurotic dependency and rebellion to a point where he can think...
...TIME says the aphorism on Mr. Gardner's desk, "Das Beste ist gut genug," Is by an "unknown" writer. Actually, it is by the not entirely unknown German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Italienische Reise (Italian Journey'), we find: "In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug" (In art the best is good enough...
Grissom got that chance when he was picked as the pilot of America's first two-man spacecraft. With the launching of Gemini 3 on its three-orbit flight on March 23, 1965, Grissom became the first man ever to journey twice into space. Aided by Co-Pilot John Young, he scored yet another space first when he took over the controls himself, skill- fully piloted the craft through a series of tricky orbit-changing maneuvers. After that success, Grissom seemed to loosen up. The Apollo flight would have made him the only man to enter space three times...
...Open the jug of rum and give me a swallow to clear my throat." That is the way tales are begun in northeastern Brazil. And when the storyteller is Jorge Amado, it is well to take another swallow and settle back for an epic journey into passion, music, gambling, a bit of fighting and all manner of discursive side trips; Amado holds that there is "nothing worse than telling a story hurry-scurry, slipshod, without carefully analyzing everything...
...English-The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire-have placed him in the highest rank of contemporary writers. These books stimulated a demand for the au thor's total work, so that most of his earlier Russian novels have now completed the journey into translation...