Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shames our self-effacement. Swept on by his own rhetoric, Harrington concludes with a bizarre version of the New Mysticism, in which the psychopath and the good soldier both partake in a hallucinogenic communion at what he calls the Church of Rebirth. After all those exhortations, however, one finds oneself agreeing with the friend who discovered Harring ton in the darkened living room in San Francisco. " 'For Christ's sake!' he shouted, yanking open the blinds. 'How can you live that...
...pretty forceful words and would seem to indicate a sense of moral outrage over the magnitude of Senator Muskie's alleged deceitfulness. Yet a close look at a couple of these incidents will reveal that only by twisting the facts and by giving credence to rumor can one work oneself into a state of moral outrage against the Muskie New Hampshire campaign...
...moment, the answer appeared simple, even if it was not. Most Jews seemed to decide that to be a Jew was to commit oneself to Israel. In the five years since then, that answer has apparently remained sufficient for many Jews. Says Rabbi Robert Seigel, Hillel Foundation director for North Carolina: "Israel's survival is our survival...
...woman is not exactly the thing to have at Radcliffe," but the Pepper sculpture can hardly be accused of prejudiced representation of the feminine form. And the fact that it almost blends with the wall forces one to look at other corners of the building (forces one to engage oneself in the environment) to see whether the piece is unique, and it adds a pleasant lilt to the bottom of the corner as the steel broadens and folds outward from the wall...
...nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have been more popular and successful than Bertie Wooster and his butler, the inimitable Jeeves...