Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language and started building a tower to heaven. God saw that if mankind succeeded, it could be restrained in nothing. So God threw mankind into the confusion of many tongues and the tower collapsed. I learned that this story was a lesson for inflated pride. A friend of mine edits out God and says mankind failed when it changed its focus from the joyful process of building to the disintegration of goal-fixation. I have come to regard it as suggesting the dangers of premature unity...
...Chileans have a keen pragmatism, as shown by your story. A while back, a conservative Chilean cousin of mine was visiting in the U.S. His name: Guevara. When I asked him if we were related to "Che," he smiled slyly and quipped, "Aquí no; en Cuba...
...almost four years in the Marines. "I had been a cook," he says, "so I figured that I would be able to get something in that lin; without trouble." He found only one temporary job making sandwiches, and he now subsists on $66 weekly unemployment compensation. "Two friends of mine who got out about the same time that I did are going back into the service because there is no work...
...WHITE has a rather strange mind. To a normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems...
What do we choose? There are no answers in this play, perhaps not in our lives. When Aili protests, "I can't choose. These are all your designs, not mine," there is no real response, for just whose designs are they? The designer, a man, answers, "You don't like my designs? Fine. There are plenty of women out there who do," but we know he is as terribly trapped as we. The mannequin cowers in the closet. And Mary responds, chanting, "Wow. Wow," as the men murmur. "Pose, Smile, Change," and, "Bang, I'm a man." Aili screams...