Word: mortality
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...Faust, and a useful epigram when sending flowers to a classy girl, but only someone deep in the throes of his impotence could ever really mean it. For Frank Wedekind, sexual relations were like some sort of rarefied body-surfing: exhilaration in the midst of a mortal undertow. Wedekind believed that the eternal feminine could only draw men upward by making them think that down is up, and then sucking them further and further into...
...heart, on working some common moral out of private pain. Rock music is still benefitting from lessons that Lennon fought hard for, then passed along. All his music seemed to be torn from that small, stormy interior where, as Robert Frost once wrote, "work is play for mortal stakes...
What is a human being that you are mindful of him, and a mortal that you care...
...Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i offered what sounded like the definitive word, when at week's end he flatly declared that his government "will not accept any mediation and will not negotiate peace with Iraq." It was difficult to imagine what Palme - or any mortal diplomat - might accomplish under such circumstances...
...first painter to deal with it, he was not the first American to do so. The natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...