Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry the Rat with Women, by Jules Feiffer. Seeking love and finding oneself is a contradiction in terms, says Cartoonist Feiffer, so his mirror-magnetized hero is ruined by the love of a good woman...
...purpose of the travel ban is to protect Americans; we have no diplomatic representatives in Cuba. But the evidence indicates that the risks involved in a trip to Cuba are minimal. Freedom of movement is a corollary to freedom of speech, to the all-important right to inform oneself. The government's policy on travel to Cuba is an unwarranted invasion of individual rights...
...weak to emasculate the strong. Feiffer suggests that the compulsion to "break through to others" is a disease spread by the insecure to corrupt the self-possessed. This kind of love does not stop with the individual -it seeks to embrace the world. Seeking love and finding oneself, says Feiffer, is an ultimate contradiction in terms...
Casting the Blame. In the Buddhist faith, self-sacrifice is often undertaken to transfer the suffering of others to oneself. The martyr is usually considered a holy man so close to nirvana that he is unaffected by pain. Quang Due's premeditated act was a demonstration of Buddhist determination to force South Viet Nam's Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem to knuckle under to demands for increased religious freedom (TIME, June 14). In a will written "before closing my eyes to Buddha," Quang Due said: "I have the honor of presenting my words to President Diem, asking...
...white communities' argument is that integration will come "through evolution rather than revolution." One might answer that the hiring of a few Negro sales-girls and floor-sweepers in white-owned shops hardly constitutes a revolution, but to say such things is to talk to oneself. Reason is no answer to the constant refrain: "we don't want trouble...