Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked tall ("If there's a strike, I'll just go on vacation-I don't give a damn"), yet were unsure of what to strike for ("What we need is a six-hour day, a 34-hour week"). But the seasoned older workers, who well know the belt-tightening frustration of past long strikes, feared another one. Said one Pittsburgh worker: "Some workers even wish the President would seize the mills rather than prolong the agony." A lot of them think it is a matter for union brass alone to decide...
...time he is discovering that if he loves anybody at all it is most probably his wife. The evangelist, confronted by George in a final bleating fit of frustration, poses the question that stalks all the characters from bed to bed: "Does one person in a hundred thousand know what he really believes or what he really ought...
...those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives ask the storekeeper to sell no more rum on credit...
...easy to leave the world, Santayana wrote, once we know what it is. If Santayana was suggesting a satiety of the mind, André Gide, in his 81st year, was more keenly aware of a flagging of the senses. He had discovered a word from the Greek for it, anorexia (lack of appetite), but he added: "I find it hard to console myself for not knowing Greek...
...strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I beat a hasty retreat. But I know that today many seek their way gropingly and don't know in whom to trust. To them I say: believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt everything, but don't doubt of yourself. There is more light in Christ's words than...