Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works for 30 or 40 years under all kinds of conditions. When he reaches 60 years of age or so, he has worked up to where he can hold one of those "cushy passenger jobs." What industry is there that does not reward years of good service with a little goody...
...SPIRITUAL. The atheism that most directly challenges Christianity deserts faith in God for what it believes to be higher spiritual values. To Friedrich Nietzsche, the Christian teaching that good men would receive their reward from God in an eternity of happiness in heaven tended to destroy man's will to power, and exalted the meek and humble losers of life instead of world-conquering supermen. Albert Camus searched Christian theology in vain for the fulfillment of man's fate, found more satisfactory standards in his own tragic ponderings on human responsibility and solidarity...
...last week President Kennedy (who was accompanied on his European trip by his sister, Sargent Shriver's wife Eunice, standing in for the expectant Mrs. Kennedy as the feminine presence) spoke at the inauguration of West Germany's aborning Peace Corps. He predicted: "Germans will find their reward not here, pursuing their private pursuits, but in some far-off country...
...textbooks, Lear has recovered from his dementia before his death.) Suddenly he sees something on her lips, and he has a final moment of beatific joy. "Pour on; I will endure," he had yelled at the storm. Like Job, he does endure; and like Job he gets his reward, if only for an instant. He waited; and Godot has arrived...
...provocative picture with a shock for audiences who have been conditioned like laboratory mice to expect the customary bad-guy-is-really-good-guy reward in the last reel of a western. Paul Newman, the title-role...