Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most powerful arm of the society was a sort of Murder Inc. squad called Exepute, meaning "the Chief says . .." It was the Exepute that carried out the grisly justice of the society against anyone who balked at paying the "taxes" the chiefs whimsically imposed, or against those whom the...
Speaking in the Thursday Lecture Series, Kirk approached his topic, "The Meaning of Arab Unity," by criticizing an article in the July issue of Foreign Affairs.
What are some of the desired attributes of the ideal Stratford performer? He must, of course, have a God-given talent and a personal magnetism (which is unanalyzable). He needs a voice of wide range and many timbres. He must be able to speak and project with utter clarity at...
Cabell employed none of the novelist's devices considered important today--stream of consciousness, rendition, authority, and "psychological mechanism." He used the older tools of clear writing, myth, and allegory. He was a pessimist not quite prepared to trust reality, doubtful of "justice" in the universe, and inclined to believe...
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color...