Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along Rumania's long border with Bulgaria, Hungary and the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact forces were gathering. The Soviet propaganda organs turned the full force of their venom against Rumania and its party leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, and the press in Moscow's allied capitals followed dutifully. So...
* A word derived from the Greek anti and nomos, meaning "against law," and notably applied to the belief that Christians are saved by faith and not by works. The word now generally connotes freedom from law.
From Peru came an Indian who an swered all questions with "Cuzco," meaning that was his home town. A Uruguayan peasant, Roberto Rodriguez, wore bombachas (Gaucho-type bloomers), and there was even a black peasant-delegate from Haiti. During the Pope's speech, the honored peasants sat behind him...
So it comes as a shock that Coz zens, in his first novel since By Love Possessed (TIME cover, Sept. 2, 1957), has attempted to write a severe anti-novel. Not surprisingly, the result is less than successful. Henry Worthington is like most Cozzens heroes. Society judges him a winner...
Novelist Armah states his dilemmas so passionately that they come to carry the force of a parable. His Everyman numbly but stubbornly seeks an honorable-a human-way to survive the "endless round that shrinks a man to something less than the size and the meaning of flying ants." Relentlessly...