Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In today's world there is something extremely discomfitting about a holiday which reminds us of how many wars we have fought. I sense in many people a subtle but powerful awareness that the holiday's meaning has shifted over time and now represents a rather different set of ideas...
This is why Veterans Day felt so uncomfortable this time around. We all realize how much its meaning has been undermined by our recent military experiences, and we don't know how to deal with the discrepancy. But deal with it we must, for a problem that is not confronted...
Veterans Day will acquire more meaning for us if it does not merely celebrate battles of the past, but becomes a focal point for modifying the present to conform with our hopes for the future.
The tradition to which Still's work is related is heroic landscape, the art of the epic vista, as seen in 19th century America by painters like Bierstadt and Moran. No doubt, in some general way, his years spent under larger skies than Manhattan's, in the Midwest...
One reason for lack of popularity may be that Gallant rarely leaves helpful signs and messages that readers tend to expect of "literature": This way to the Meaning or This story is about the Folly of Love. She can sum up the postwar history of a social class in a...