Word: offere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants on the theme. Man, either as an individual or as a society, is still in his adolescence. He is yet to attain a simpler kind of community, a deeper level of spirituality, or a transcedent form of evolution. The hopes of the Romantic are to be vindicated...
FACED WITH these threats, many of the older residents of Cambridge have been looking for a solution or, perhaps more accurately, a panacea. Rent control on its face appeared to offer it: an insurance that one could stay the rest of one's days in the familial apartment, free from worries about rent increases. No matter that a rent control bill, any rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling...
...whose Christian roots are fundamentally opposed to German Expressionism. The world Jannings inhabits in not a set of dark alleys whose monstrous shadows, projections of his own fears, try to destroy him and allow only an existential fight to the finish. The objects and people of The Blue Angel offer Jannings the possibility of continual redemption through his perception of them...
LIKE ALL OTHER welfare programs, WIN is largely a voluntary program (only AFDC fathers--who are few--are required by law to participate). An additional stipend of $30 a month beyond the regular welfare check has been allotted to each client with the hope that it would offer incentive to stay with the program...
...third drawback is found in the main focus of the program. Designed to let a client chose a job that will offer incentive, the WIN counsellors consider the supply and demand for the job as secondary...