Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply shocked by Dr. Vance Chat-tin's attitude ... his "heroic" attempts to save the life of a creature that can be described as a monster, makes me doubt in his and his colleagues' sanity...
...load, and the roof should have carried it easily. Others in Genoa's streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined whether bad design, faulty materials or sabotage caused the disaster. All Italy was downcast save for the Reds, who crowed that this was only what one might expect of "The Cursed Foundry...
...Calvin Coolidge, 'where the people are the government they do not get rid of their burdens by attempting to unload them on the government.' Men are learning by bitter experience the truth of these words. I used to cherish the hope that the study of history might save us from having to learn that...
...Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom her child to save her fatherland...
...their arrival, Hawl finds his wife and son drowned, kills his brother for failing to save them, then burns the house down over them all. To his mother, who says, "Hawl . . . kill me before I burn," he replies: "Find a knife for yourself." With obvious Jeffersian irony, the poet allows her to escape and live. Hungerfield hardly proves a favorite Jeffers point-"There is no consolation in humanity"-but he avoids satisfactory motivations for his piled-up horrors by intoning: It is thus (and will be} that violence Turns on itself, and builds on the wreck of violence...