Word: subsistive
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...Since all life is futility, he contends, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational act of all. For once man sees through his fictions, there can .be no rational basis for living, a judgment that recalls Camus' point: the only philosophical question is suicide. "I subsist and act insofar as I am a raving maniac," Cioran writes. "It is by undermining the idea of reason, of order, of harmony, that we gain consciousness of ourselves...
...Tokyo, a couple, not quite young, not yet old, lives in a stereotyped housing development. Childless and friendless, they also become, in effect, anonymous, merely "she" and "he." Then "she" suddenly awakens to the universe outside her door. Alongside the development lives a colony of bedraggled ragpickers who subsist on the refuse of their privileged neighbors. One of them "she" recognizes as her husband's college classmate. "She" befriends him and his blind ward, a little girl whose wild, wandering eyes make her a creature of special desperation. Embarrassed by the fall of his onetime classmate, "he" crushes...
...Kennedy was elected President. The building is intended to provide a home for the several international and regional programs which have developed, chiefly in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, during the past twenty years. While these have grown rapidly in number, size and importance, they have had to subsist where they could, inefficiently, in inadequate and dispersed quarters. Two years ago, in connection with its large grant for international studies, the Ford Foundation promised $2.5 million toward a building to provide a centralized home for these programs. But an additional $6 million will be required to construct this building...
...poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks of the poor...
Though shortages could be largely alleviated by proper management of food distribution, the government has barely begun that task. In Kerala, where the food shortage has struck hardest because its 19 million inhabitants shun all grains except rice as "foreign food," people must now subsist on a daily rice ration of only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near...