Word: reminds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, of course, those (Saroyan included) who will remind any detractors what a great lover of humanity Saroyan is, all the same. One thing is certain: with a lover like this, humanity needs no enemy...
...some amenities are permitted, and the Office of Tests should remind its erring proctors...
...hopes that Kennedy will sharply remind Lord Home that Britain's record in recent months is no testimony to its honesty or its good sense. With France, England has done its best to sabotage the UN effort in the Congo. and, if Lord Home's fears that the United Nations was establishing a dangerous precedent in taking sides rather than mediating were theoretically valid, they were never very relevant. The United Nations had no choice but to act as it did: to create a viable Congolese state, and keep the Cold War out of the Congo...
...assumes, then the universe itself is senseless, the tragic side of absurdity. For all their bravado, the playwrights of the absurd are inconsolable at the vision of a godless universe, but they regard their audiences as complacent, apathetic, asleep. With taunts and shock effects, by continually destroying illusion to remind playgoers that they are watching a play, by using the debased language of cliches, the absurdists try to wake up an audience to what they regard as life's tragic farce...
...Status Symbol. The child classics run from Dean Swift to Tom Swift, from Defoe and his immortal castaway to Mark Twain's raft, adrift forever on the Mississippi. Alice is still in Wonderland, and the Ancient Mariner is there to remind the buyer that man was a poet before he learned prose and that a child who is fobbed off with baby-talk doggerel is not only being robbed but nudged into the cozy horrors of the remedial-reading set. Treasure Island and The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle may still be bought, and it is a good thing...