Word: surround
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still his autobiography, even up to the time of his appointment to the court where this volume stops, often seems extraordinary enough to match many of the stories that surround the forging of America's great men. In 1904 Douglas' minister father died after having moved the family to a tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio...
...mime" says Marceau, "is the portrayal of the human being in its most secret yearnings. By identifying itself with the elements which surround us, the art of the mime makes visible the invisible and concrete the abstract." Halfway between dancing and the theater, mime is an art of illusion relying on Man's fundamental and oldest method of communication. The raw material used--the human being himself--is never confined by objects and leaps speechlessly over the wall of language, the deceptions of words. Reaching out towards an all-embracing definition of the human being, mime is universal...
...four-year bondage to this corporation that some member of it's working was bold enough to call a spade a spade. I am referring to the most accurate depiction of the Harvard alienation-complex by Donald Hermann in The Crimson of March 19, 1974. The unfortunate circumstances which surround the Harvard and Radcliffe students are as integrated as the corporate bureaucracy could possibly create: Questions (specifically in Chem 20) are a mark of the student's stupidity, only stylized rhetoric affirming the bias of course administrations is acceptable as independent thought, and students grab ahold of Harvard's "brand...
...part one of The New York Time's review of "Working," which appeared March 21, Anatole Broyard wrote: "This is the era of sentimental sociology, the apocalypse of the ordinary man. You would think they had never met one before, the way some social scientists surround him with astonishment...
...reason why we shouldn't enjoy it. But as we're emerging from one of our jaunts into the past, as we walk out into the invigorating after-theatre air, we might just ask ourselves what it is we're retreating from. Is it from the problems that surround us daily, problems surely not so grave as those that faced Harvard students in 1939? Or is it possibly that we are escaping something within ourselves--our own lack of commitment, perhaps, to the world and its problems, this side of the rainbow...