Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendliness has become the distinguishing characteristic of the House. Some cliques exist, but most disappear or are discouraged from forming. At Dunster it is not uncommon to know the name of one's next-door neighbor. That sort of thing is encouraged, in fact...
Eliot's emphasis on individual initiative and achievements has mistakenly created the impression in the minds of a few inhabitants of the other Houses that it is some sort of exclusive Ivory Tower on the Charles...
...author constantly advises the elimination of everything relating to past or future. Ambition, for example, is linked to becoming. And becoming "is the continuation of time, or sorrow." Becoming, he claims, does not contain Being, "for Being is always in the present." Ambition of any sort, even of altruistic motivation, is action postponed. "Desire is ever of the future; the desire to become is inaction in the present...
...perverse impulses of the human spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...
...length our fair heroine falls in love with a customer, a well-educated anti-Fascist and she is to bear him a child. This affair ends in bleak and bloody despair. She wanders off into the darkness, saying that she will devote her life to her child, a sort of circular statement connecting with the words her mother spoke to her, implying that this is the circle of life and always will...