Word: littorale
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Winds of Legend. Anxiety in Americans, says Eliot, stems from their "basically sound awareness that pleasure is not joy." Money can buy pleasure but joy costs more, and can be gained only through "creative work and love." In his personal search for these elusive commodities, Eliot quit his job after...
The dream of a United States of Europe has captivated statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill. But for Britain, still dreaming of the days when it was the greatest power on earth, togetherness with the Continent has always seemed a kind of national capitulation, and it has remained proudly aloof across...
New men and new states were pushing up like exotic flowers from the jungles and savannas, from the cloud-rimmed mountains and sandy wastes of the last continent to awaken politically. Despite the daily shedding of blood from the Mediterranean littoral to the Cape of Good Hope, independence has come...
And then, fresh from his senatorial triumph, Jack Kennedy returned to Washington, renewed his courtship with increased ardor. For six months Jack campaigned relentlessly for Jackie's vote, in and out of Georgetown dinner parties, Washington art theaters and movie houses (he even learned to tolerate Ingmar Bergman), at...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave...