Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have taken on this war merely for the purpose of enjoying this tiny state. There have been only two great peoples: the Greeks and the Jews. Perhaps the Greeks were even greater than the Jews, but now I can see no sign of that old greatness in the modern Greeks. Maybe, when the present process is finished we too will degenerate, but I see no sign of degeneration at present...
...gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
...serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence of the modern soul from which it springs...
...mother, taunting them with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain the violence-and insanity-after death; its weakness comes of pushing this suggestion too far, implying that no human kindness or decency could survive modern warfare, and thus turning what might have been a tragic moral struggle into a necrophiliac nightmare...
John Hancock: Patriot in Purple is the sort of biography that has lately become fairly common-a valuable study of a neglected historic figure, written, however, with an air of almost deliberate carelessness, in a scratchy and repetitious prose style, and with modern, skeptical yawns breaking in on the high-minded speeches of the patriots...