Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Brooks said yesterday, "This team compares favorably with last year's. Our strongest events will probably be the freestyle relay and the diving, in which we have not only Murphy but also Dick Eisenberg. We're a little concerned about the backstroke event at the moment...
Back through the now heavy rain to the News. The scene was frantic--with the deadline an hour away, strange faces constantly popping in telling me to hurry up, and half-heard comments about that goddamned Cliffie. At that moment the whole experience was suddenly surrealistic. There I was at Yale, for no reason except that a group of boys just couldn't stand it anymore, sitting in a strange newsroom, writing some story about some lady masturbating with a cross. It was bizarre and slightly absurd. All at once I was feeling isolated and quite lonely...
...calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas the total is constantly on the increase. In the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every moment dies a man,/And one and a sixteenth is born." The exact figures are 1.167, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre...
...atmosphere of hysterical malediction gradually infests the room. At the crucial moment, the young man loses his chance for infamous glory as a hundred assassins gun down the President in a communal murder. Despite its grisly theme, the play is acridly funny in its satire of a society that, in the playwright's view, is teetering toward terror, anarchy and nihilism...
...villagers, and why the apparatus that operates the lignite mine crashes in total disaster. Such is, says Kazantzakis, the destiny of man and all his works. This is the Greek tragic sense of life, and from it springs Zorba's credo: to live in, for and by each moment as if it were the first and the last. With this musical, one soon wishes each moment was the last...