Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future one hopes that the ominous cries of Cambridge's colored prophetess will remind hurried passers-by of Nietzsche's allegory of the madman who was met with the laughter of the unbelieving populace when he rushed to the marketplace with a lantern in the early morning hours seeking...
...great for us? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever will be born after us--for the sake of this deed he will be part of a higher history than all history hither to.'" But Nietzsche's madman, like Nietzsche himself, despaired. "At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke and went out. 'I come too early,' he said then; 'my time has not come yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering--it has not yet reached the ears of men. This deed is still more distant from them than...
London, a lantern-jawed former British champ with over 20 pounds weight advantage, is regarded so lightly that odds against him have been quoted...
...compensation for the widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young Men, bohemian sex. While Author Wilson unfolds a kind of serial on the theme of "Which Weeds Will the Widow Wear?" he also presents a series of sharp, lantern-slide portraits of modern England...
...Island Lantern, monthly magazine of the U.S. penitentiary at McNeil Island, Wash., was once a week late because of heavy fog: staffers were denied access to a remote warehouse where cover stock was cut. On the Observer, biweekly paper at the California State Prison at Folsom, reporters must be checked through as many as four inside gates in chase of a story. San Quentin's News has not etched its own engravings in years-not since some handsome counterfeit currency was traced to the prison print shop...