Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That, if I perish, heaven and earth may fade...
Camus pushes these questions up the fashionable modern Parnassus-inhabited by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gide, and all manner of existentialists. In the end, a little existentialist moss clings to his rolling stone, and Camus achieves his answer: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged . . . There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Sisyphus has achieved "a total absence of hope (which has nothing to do with despair)." Rope or Cravat? While it is no news, of course, that French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily...
...devotion to civil liberty, rather scoffed at the privilege . . . Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo, writing for the court, said 'This [privilege] too might be lost and justice still to be done ... No doubt there would remain the need to give protection against torture, physical or mental. Justice, however, would not perish if the accused were subject to a duty to respond to orderly inquiry.' This language was concurred in by Justices Hughes, Stone, Brandeis, Roberts and Black...
...continues, the careful, self-conscious diction breaks down, the sidewalk elisions appear. "Either we were gonna get the confidence of the people or perish. I'd been in the business a long time. It was the only one I knew. I figured I'm in so deep I gotta...
...order's Dutch convent at Echt. There on Passion Sunday, a few months after her flight from Cologne, Sister Benedicta, with a sense of premonition, received permission from her prioress to offer herself spiritually as a "sacrifice of expiation for true peace: that the reign of Antichrist may perish...