Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus far survived the challenges of nature by adapting to and overcoming them. Has the human race lost its self-confidence? The only progress the race has made has been through expansion and growth...
...also kept in control by Betancourt. So far, these fears influence Villalba and Caldera more than transitory resentments against Betancourt, and keep the three politicians sitting at the same table. Said Caldera: "The parties learned in the crucible of persecution the beneficial lesson that the interest of each is lost if the common good is not assured...
...more effective as a philosophe than as a playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat...
...Angeles next summer probably without the support of any one of the top four delegations. Even if the state leaders decide that the vice-Presidential slot is out of reach and pledge themselves to Kennedy at the convention--as any of them might do--the Senator will have lost their earlier support that could have started the all-important bandwagon rolling...
...take first place and set meet and Cage marks. Stan Doten of the Crimson, finishing second, set new Harvard and University indoor marks with a 57 ft. 3/4 in. toss. A fine 56 ft., 1 3/4 in. effort by the varsity's Ed Bailey was lost in the commotion...