Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...
Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words...
...which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale (the white & black keys in an octave on the piano) are arranged in a "row" in a highly formalized pattern. "Atonal" ( a term often loosely applied to Schönberg, in spite of his protests) means music in which the traditional laws of consonant chords are not observed. To most untutored ears, both sound like hell...
...Maritain proposes a God-centered "Christian humanism." Says he: "God trains us through our disillusionments and mistakes to understand at last that we must believe only in Him and not in men, which places us in the proper position to marvel at ... all the good which [men] do in spite of themselves...
...with a tiny allowance and a heavy load of advice. "Be a Michelangelo if you like," the elder John said solemnly, "but first make your living." Out of sight of home, John grew a beard, took to parting his russet hair in the middle and wearing golden earrings. "In spite of a superficial appearance of negligence," he later explained, "my mode of dress was not unstudied and had a style of its own." He has since discarded the earrings, but he wears even his black Homburg with a rakish...