Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What J. D. Salinger is, is a phony, and it is by no means inconceivable that what drives him to such extremes of reclusiveness is simple self-knowledge, inasmuch as Mr. Salinger must surely have the windiest conscience yet granted to mortal man, the onslaught of the aspen-hinged tongue of which would drive any man to flight and concealment...
...mess that had grown up during Wagner's own eight hapless years in office. Wagner won by 160,000 votes over State Controller Arthur Levitt, the candidate of New York City's regular Democratic organization. And in the process of rolling up that plurality, Wagner dealt a mortal blow to the bosses who had twice previously helped him get elected mayor-and whose virtues he had, in past years, praised lavishly...
...flower-cradled coffin as a guard of honor. Long lines of clerks and students filed slowly by, many of them not quite sure who it was they had been summoned to pay last homage to. In the same hall where Lenin and Stalin had been finally honored lay the mortal remains of American William Zebulon Foster...
...revealing photograph hints that the women might busy themselves with another phase of "temperance" work. Remember that the addition of excess poundage due to high caloric intake is usually the result of the commission of at least one of the mortal sins in the Christian list; namely, gluttony...
This recent slaughter was yet another grisly incident in a mortal struggle against cruelty and civilization that has been going on in Brazil for more than 400 years. Like the North American Indian before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian...