Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance-the first I have had in nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend...
...tung was driven by Stalin's policies to seek independence for the Chinese Communist Party. He won that independence, and maintained it in increasingly open opposition to Moscow; finally the time came when Moscow had to negotiate with a man it would have preferred to use as a mere instrument. Today, in his old age, Mao has become a full and equal member of the "collective leadership of world Communism," a man no longer to be suspected in the least of "separatist" or Titoist tendencies. Mao is the largest individual figure in world Communism, and overtops any single Russian...
...much a myth as the story of Persephone." But alas, it is at the end of his article. This point is reached through a wealth of fascinating but laborious detail. Jung has discussed the myth similarly but with succinct logic. Heidegger's denial of "language as a mere sign" is a double proof for it affirms it s reasoning by the example of its won poetry. Berman, on the other hand, tries to make the point that "men are interrelated analogically." But he does so in analytic terms which are extrinsic to the experience itself and also fail to objectify...
...write that "the figures stand or sit or lie like members of some ancient race of prototypes of man, self-contained and with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like...
...confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem of sin, her lover is still bound by strong conjugal ties. When the girl turns imploringly to her great-uncle in his wheelchair, he tries-but in vain-to offer something more than mere platitudes and catchwords of faith; and the suffering girl commits suicide...