Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Criminal Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage...
Nothing to Say. To stay abreast of the missile era, the Magazine has added to its list of contributors many a starlit name from the ranks of space engineers, e.g., Hugh Dryden and Heinz Haber, remapped the firmament in its monumental Sky Atlas (price: about $1,200), even peddled (for...
Mercy & Damnation. In Calvin's theology, the prime attribute of God is transcendent sovereignty, and man's chief end is to know and glorify him. But by Adam's fall, man inherited utter depravity and corruptness-not only as a punishment, but also as a kind of...
The fact about Simone de Beauvoir that emerges most clearly from the Memoirs is that she lacks the classic French quality of mesure, or "nothing in excess." From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total...
Yet dogging all the old folk - a dotty lady novelist, a rich London brewer, a withered poet and a wardful of grannies in a charity hospital-is the intimate awareness of death. A name slips from an aging memory; an obituary read with morning toast turns out to be that...