Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Written in tones of resignation-to domestic economics and to the march of progress in Atomic Age weapons-Great Britain's message to the world was a historic landmark in military history. The British decision to convert almost completely to nuclear-armed missiles (see FOREIGN NEWS) had deep meaning...
An oral tradition of Hebrew and Aramaic underlying the Greek of the written Gospels made it necessary to use rough and often clumsy Greek equivalents for Semitic concepts. Hence, the treasury of scroll literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the...
Finnegans Wake and a little sketch by the French writer Tardieu called Trio, which Sarah Lawrence presented, serve as examples of another, if minor, branch on the experimental tree--they depended for much of their effect on playing with words. The difficulties and advantages of Joyce's style are familiar...
Perhaps more than any other American author of stature, Wolfe seemed to feel a complex love for and desire to express the spirit and meaning of America, and particularily the part from which he came. He never seemed to have escaped boy at heart (who p the attitude that he...
But if Wolfe's reach ultimately did exceed his grasp, he had the courage to dare the universe, to seek for the meaning of human life in human terms, and not be misled by the economic explanations or shallow cynicism of so many of his contemporaries. These letters make a...