Word: meaningfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MUCH of City is that way today: empty and unneeded. But medical research is only partially and indirectly responsible. There are just not enough people left who are unable to go to a private hospital or to choose their own doctors. "Medicare and medicaid have made obsolete the concept of...
If Dylan is living some sort of stream of consciousness, it's in a certain meaning of the phrase. One kind of stream of consciousness (represented in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse) is a highly sensitive awareness limited to what is actually happening around the character and the immediate...
Look at what Dylan does with time. The past is sung as if it were just happening now. The present becomes the only kind of reality. The future isn't mentioned unless it's predetermined; if the future is determined, its reality is already there in the present. Take Dylan...
Now catch what happens to time in Desolation Row. He presents a rambling view of the half real, half surreal things famous characters from books and fairy tales are doing. The tremendous feel for the immediacy of what happens Dylan gives us in the chronological one-after-another present tense...
THE REAL danger spot in Eastern Europe these days is not Czechoslovakia but Poland, where the Bureaucrats are counter-attacking moves that so far have remained almost exclusively on a cultural plane. These Bureaucrats are trying to ride the wave of nationalism but deny the liberalization that may have originally...