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...Basques are fiercely proud of being a distinct ethnic group, different in origin and language from all other Europeans. Some ethnologists consider them a remnant of the peoples who inhabited Western Europe in the Stone Age, long before the prehistoric Indo-European migrations from the east. In the complex Basque language-so difficult that, according to a Basque proverb, the devil himself failed to learn it in seven tries-stone is aitz, knife is aizto. Though basically a mountain folk, Basques make good seamen, like to point out that the pilot of Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria...
Harvard's Tillich sees existentialism in three aspects. In part it is "an element in all important human thinking ... the attempt of man to describe his existence and its conflicts, the origin of these conflicts, and the anticipations of overcoming them; it is also a revolt against 19th century industrial society, against the world view in which man is nothing but a piece of an all-embracing mechanical reality"-physical, economic, sociological or psychological. The third aspect of existentialism, says Tillich, is the universal plaint of sensitive human beings in the 20th century. "It became the subject matter...
...Communist system to achieve rapid economic gains unless they understand that freedom offers something better. "Our free society derives its principal momentum from its religious character. We believe in the spiritual nature of man, and in the human dignity which results from the fact that man has his origin and destiny in God. Such beliefs provide a constant and powerful compulsion toward peaceful change toward a better world . . . During a period when international Communism was forcibly extending its dominion over more than 650 million alien people . . . the free nations were according independence to 17 nations with aggregate populations of around...
...life, but at this time there appears to be a limit beyond which he cannot hope to go. The brain, heart, some lung tissue, and other organs will probably be indispensable for some time. The [cancers] involving these parts are threats to life from the time of their origin...
...maintains that level of fictional and historical curiosity throughout. Prominent in the milling cast of characters is a queen of Naples whose appetite for men is inextinguishable. Pretending to be interested in Italian political squabbles, Author Thayer really saves his most conspicuous talents for scenes that normally have their origin in lecherous fantasy. A drool trickles from the wiseguy, smoking-car prose, and each orgy is dropped with a reluctance that promises another bout in the next chapter. The promise is kept, to the point of bedroom boredom...