Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which each human being feels in the midst of a faceless jungle like Chicago. They must fight because they cannot communicate as people on any other terms. Brecht is showing us that we have developed a social system which-like Chicagoseparates, rather than unites, every man. "Human skin grows thicker and thicker." Schlink says, because of this system. This skin keeps people from knowing each other. The only force that pierces this, outer layer is one which lies outside the world of accepted motives and rewards-a force like the competitive spirit of the wrestlers...
...cracks that were apparently caused by movement of the seabed itself. Although the oceans are billions of years old, sonar measurement of the depth of accumulated sediment indicated that the sea floor is no more than a few hundred million years old; the deposit of sediment should be much thicker...