Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference in New York, the 63-year-old professor accepted the $10.000 prize for achievements "in the prolonging or improving the quality of human life." in his speech. Wald proposed a package of issues "that the newly formed coalition of concerned Republicans and Democrats in Congress" should bring...
Wald said Nixon's- "or is it Mitchell's" -southern strategy "called upon the worst things in American life." Wald's "American strategy," on the other hand, "calls upon the best things in American life." His proposals included immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, repeal of the draft, better housing and schools and satisfaction of other human needs...
...people to laugh at God," and resolved forthwith to get them removed from the school curriculum." I oppose their use on the grounds that they convey the idea that everyone lives like it says in the books," he stated ungrammatically, "and that teachers and churches approve that kind of life...
...wrote: "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ... is unforgetable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst." The novel's appeal has continued over the years, and it speaks (as do other Hesse novels, particularly Steppenwolf and Siddhartha ) with especial force to today's young people-whether they are questioning, confused, alienated, or depressed...
...beautiful things happening before our eyes. Sorrows is no sweet moralistic drama. The moral unity it maintains is the most complex of artistic attitudes. Satan, for example, is no villain. Indeed, Griffith discarded villains after America (1924). The men who rob the hero and heroine of Isn't Life Wonderful are driven to their crime by hunger and, like the two leads, by marital love. They are as human, as noble, as anyone else. Satan goes through more intense emotional crises even than the deserted sweetheart of Sorrows. A true union of Angel and Man, he epitomizes the ideality present...