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...says Tillich, exists in a state of "finitude." He does not know what he is or where he is going. He feels estranged from some great, unknown thing that is demanded of him. He is filled with wonder at the phenomenon of "being," simple astonishment that things are. This wonder presupposes a darker knowledge that they might not be; being is threatened, always and everywhere, by nonbeing...
...contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back to the composers. In 1839 he shrewdly bought the rights to the new opera Oberto from an unknown provincial composer named Verdi...
...amusement parks, visited Dancer Fred Astaire on a movie set, but never lost sight of why she had come: to show swim-conscious Australians what an American girl could do. By the time she returned to California this week, Sylvia had set four world records, was no longer an unknown in her own country...
...column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express' readership...
...Fitzgerald will go in the two-mile against a field of unknown quality. Fitzgerald is something of a question mark himself, since he has concentrated on the mile event this winter. The only Crimson entry seemingly involved in a losing cause is captain Al Gordon, who will be up against a brilliant field...