Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although still strongly backed by Peace and Freedom, the rent referendum organization is now at least overtly separate from the party...
Graham Pattern, for instance, still a Marxist, and fond of saying that "everything is run by the dozen men who were in my year at Oxford and Cambridge." He said this with pride. Which did not prevent him and everybody else saluting the new classlessness, which meant that some talents from the provinces or from the lower classes had been attracted to London and had been absorbed--exactly as had always happened...
...basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants on the theme. Man, either as an individual or as a society, is still in his adolescence. He is yet to attain a simpler kind of community, a deeper level of spirituality, or a transcedent form of evolution. The hopes of the Romantic are to be vindicated...
...situation--one in which the conventional terms "sanity" and "insanity" are reversed--is all too commonplace nowadays. And yet its popular acceptance has created the atmosphere which enriches a book such as The Four-Gated City. For we are still playing the same Jamesian game of placing bets on the resolution of the future. When rational, we are, of course more skeptical. Only now we are even less inclined to pretend we are making our choices on anything like rational grounds. No, instead we accept the fact that our psychology drives us toward accepting the "irrational" as the only possible...
...hear" in dramatic new ways seem ethereal. In her final letter, Martha writes of such children on her own island, "These seven children are our--but we have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians. They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence. And when one exceptional child does want to fight, "the children regarded him as some sort of unfortunate born with the need to quarrel as if as might have had a harelip...