Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, as he did last week in his State of the Union message, the President moved vigorously to restore a measure of the U.S.'s pre-Sputnik confidence-without its pre-Sputnik complacency. And thus, in his letter to Bulganin, he redefined the meaning of the world competition and...
With The Chairs and The Lesson, Rumanian-French Eugene Ionesco, whose work has been about equally hailed for its meaning and hooted for lack of any, had his first professional Manhattan hearing. In The Chairs, dubbed "a tragic farce," an aged couple who live in a sort of wave-washed...
To Physicist Phillips, the reason for this trend, which has grown steadily during recent years, is obvious: "The whole reason is that we have permitted woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our whole primary and secondary school system."
The affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture...
But for all his crudities, Novelist Ott has made a case against war that is as powerful as anything in a recent novel. It is also a savage attack on the German people. A young intellectual rants about the complacency that allowed Hitler's rise: "We have outstanding religious...