Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensibility diminished by the wracking crises of the years between 1939 and 1944, and yet able to go on. Anais Nin's shared preoccupations with psychoanalysis pervade the entries in this volume; Otto Rank appears in the beginning pages as the mysterious influence he was in Nin's life, but by this time he was dead, leaving her to agonize over her relationship to him ("Did I see enough, hear enough, observe enough, love enough, did I listen attentively, did I sustain the life...
...books, and the triumph of attention, all amidst the background of convulsion in the world. After a terse notation of atrocities ("Bali invaded. Java invaded. Paris bombarded by the English, India rebelling against the English") Nin wrote: "And what can one do but preserve some semblance of human life, to seek the not-savage, not-barbaric forms of life...
...DISMAL here now, and despite the weather and time of year, it shouldn't be. It's supposed to be the holiday season. We're supposed to be giving thanks, being joyous, celebrating life, peace, love and brotherhood. We aren...
Ecology Action is concerned with much more than Christmas garbage. It describes its members in one of its pamphlets as "people actively trying to reverse the massive destruction of our environment, our earth household. . . . Simultancously, we are trying to find ways to transform our own personal values, our life styles, and our 'economics' that will insure our survival and the healthy continuance of our earth's life support systems...
...ORGANIZATIONS I've mentioned here have some things in common. They're all pro -things: pro-peace, pro-life, pro-love. They share the assumptions that there is already far too much division in this society, and that people must be brought together for really important reasons...