Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Anchorage the Alaskan press club organized a great reception. The penguins were renamed Egegik (an Alaskan name) and Angela (Italian) Kinglea (meaning very good friend). They consumed their first meal in the Far North, consisting of hooligans (local fish) and salmon.
The situation is one that Chekhov might have admired. It has the mysterious opacity of real life. It cannot be understood; it cannot be judged; it cannot be solved. It can only be experienced. But Rattigan, alas, is no Chekhov. As time runs out, he quite shamelessly gives the public...
Much of the West's interest in Zhivago is political. Inevitably, the book has been used as a weapon in the cold war. Inevitably, Moscow's refusal to let Pasternak accept the Nobel Prize and his denunciation by the hired hacks of the Animal Farm ("A black sheep...
After a summer and autumn of gloom and despair, the ugly American has almost completely lost confidence in his ability to distill meaning from world affairs. His nation stumbles through the wilderness to cope with crisis succeeding crisis, to preserve a makeshift peace. It is no wonder then, that he...
When Governor Bowles talks about what should be done to construct an intelligent approach to world affairs, the words "dynamic" and "creative" are used with much frequency. Such words tend to be bandied about with too much ease today, so much so that they have lost almost all meaning. But...