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Word: question (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anarchist, blowing up airplanes, factories, and like that, and asserting my individualism?" In short, one must "come to grips" with "basic existence" and master reality through the Ideal. "Why can't I commit myself and become a non-conformist?" still remains the fundamental question of our sham existence...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Gadfly | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

John thinks about this for a minute, and his colleagues clap their hands. This is an expression of approval for a well-put question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Innocents Abroad | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...this new competition has raised the question of how the U.S. can prevent itself from being priced out of world markets. Inland Steel's Smith is not alone in asking how much longer the U.S. can afford the contrast between the $3.03 average U.S. steel wage and, according to latest available figures, the 89? average for Luxembourg, the 78? average for Belgium, the 68? average for West Germany, or the 41? for Japan. One obvious but unlikely solution is for foreign countries to raise wages faster, share more of the benefits of rising productivity with their workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN COMPETITION: Homemade Challenge in World Markets | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...novel contained enough explicit love scenes and enough short Anglo-Saxon words to sate the appetite of the keenest pornographer. But is it pornography? The answer of literary people is no. Lawrence, a fretful neurotic always at war within himself, was a serious writer. But there is another question: Is Lady Chatterley dull and tiresome? This time the answer must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Third Lady Chatterley | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Lawrence was attacking three pet foes in Lady Chatterley: 1) unwholesome relations between men and women, particularly in bed; 2) unwholesome class stratification in English society; and 3) the evils of industrial civilization. That his book was revolutionary at the time is beyond question. In a way it was briefly important, though it contains some of Lawrence's most wooden writing. The characters are talking symbols, and when Mellors and Connie do come to life in the lovemaking scenes, the reader, conditioned though he may be by modern novels of lesser stature, is not so much shocked or moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Third Lady Chatterley | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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