Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saying that the Winthrop House one-acts are enjoyable amateur productions may sound like faint praise, but it really isn't. No one was pretending to be anything they weren't and everyone in the place had a good time. In this case that means success. Which means if you...
In this country, the concept of "coming out" peaked during the 30's and 40's, when the media followed and photographed debutantes almost as often as it did movie stars. The symbolic meaning faded as the debut developed into a traditional excuse to embark on a round of expensive...
For how could one imagine a connection between Santayana and Jones's cult? Santayana--the philosopher of the American consciousness, the dissector of our spiritual heritage; the rationalist Harvard professor, the ascetic hermit; the half-Spanish, half-Boston Brahmin writer who knew the spirit of this country so well yet...
The landscape of their minds was as grotesque as the corpse-littered village they left behind. They had started as seekers after meaning, direction, comfort and love. The Peoples Temple, which provided a number of social services to the poor, had filled their lives with purpose. But in the jungle...
In short, Washington is still holding out for a timetable for West Bank negotiations, to begin within a month of the signing of the peace treaty and to conclude by Dec. 31, 1979. First, however, there is that other timetable: if Sadat and Begin expect the celebration in Oslo to...