Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
...Lerner's analysis of the students going to Mississippi is inaccurate. The fact is that most of the students whom we have interviewed for the project, far from being secret thrill-seekers, are honest and sincere young people who honestly and sincerely believe that their participation in such a program will contribute to American democracy. Perhaps these sentiments are by now so trite and rare that they are mistrusted by Mr. Lerner, who seeks other unconscious drives for their actions...
Opponents of militant non-violence may claim this plea is academic because Mississippi is destined to bathe in blood this summer. Given the number of people who secretly thrill at the prospect of battle, those opponents are probably, tragically, right...
...hair freshly bleached, their nails painted, their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...
What's more, the real thrill is in knowing that, after all, Nellie must be the heroine of the piece...