Word: nourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then made his greetings specific and bade his classmates "Hall and Farewell!"). . . . In difficult matters and critical times, let us remember to keep a balanced mind; let us be on our guard unremittingly; let us never be afraid . . . as Cicero once said in his defence of the poet Archias, "nourish youth, delight old age, embellish prosperous times, afford a haven and solace in adverse times, give pleasure at home, do not hinder abroad, spend the night with us, travel about with us, live in the country with...
...Hollywood in 1940, the legend persisted, but with an important addition: the charming playboy was mourned as a great writer who had tragically dissipated his talent. To some intellectuals, the Fitzgerald story seemed the perfect prop to bolster a shaky thesis: that the U.S. is culturally too anemic to nourish its good writers. By implication, Fitzgerald's dipsomaniacal botch of his life derived from and was part of the national botch...
Presumably the shouting was about a world threatened by the atom bomb. Lorjou meant his painting to convey a hopeful message. If there is an atomic war, he says, "afterwards there will still be men. It will be necessary to nourish them...