Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...profitable still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...
...Region have long been a troublesome lot to officialdom. Mostly half-naked farmers, they take unusual delight in staging bloody campaigns against vaccinations, and in setting schools on fire. Each time the police must come in to restore order. But of all the assignments that the police have undertaken, none has produced such eerie results as the search of the house of Chief Nwiboko Obodo...
...Foreign Service and for the next generation of journalists, pay-later tourists, and businessmen abroad: 56.4% of U.S. high schools, according to the report, do not teach even one foreign language. Less than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught teachers, outdated textbooks, aimed at giving...
Adolf Hitler's brutal deputy, Martin Bormann, was notorious for his hatred of religion, took particular care that "none of my children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." In 1945 Deputy Führer Bormann's son Martin, 15, was sent off to war in the Brenner Pass area as a member of the Hitler Youth "Werewolf" volunteers. In the Nazi holocaust, Party Leader Bormann vanished. Last week it became plain how completely Bormann had failed to guide his son along his own paths. After studying for nine years, Martin Bormann, 28, was consecrated...
Cabell employed none of the novelist's devices considered important today--stream of consciousness, rendition, authority, and "psychological mechanism." He used the older tools of clear writing, myth, and allegory. He was a pessimist not quite prepared to trust reality, doubtful of "justice" in the universe, and inclined to believe that the discovery of cosmic chaos was not a triumph for man. It only sustained the defeat. But Cabell didn't let things go at anticipating Sartre and the Left Bank anti-ontologists. He did believe in wit and beauty, and symbolistic meaning. Images in Jurgen arise from both...