Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely disenchanted with the people in the mass, and by the same token developed a great respect for the individual. And I think I learned also the practical aspect of standing in line for something." Springfield (Mass.) Architect Francis Liberatori, 39, paratrooper (loist Airborne) who lost the use of both legs in Normandy, reflects something about a new quiet kind of patriotism: "I learned some useful things about men and about my country in the war. And those things I don't forget...
When he chooses to exercise it, De Gaulle is capable of an unexpected humor. In his teens he was famed for his rendition of the "nose" speech from Cyrano de Bergerac?an act that involved masterful use of his own huge nose. And at his infrequent press conferences, he has employed his long, basset-hound countenance to immensely comic effect...
...Entirety. Americans, says May, use perpetual work as a defense against existential anxiety. They cannot face life itself because life as such has lost its meaning. In the U.S. this despondency has been sharply intensified by the realization that a hydrogen-bomb war could wipe out all life; so the threat of it brings every man abruptly face to face with Kierkegaard's nonexistence and Sartre's nothingness...
...Use a typewriter, careless of taste...
...years of teaching, most recently at the University of Washington, Roethke has apparently found little to change his mind. He has no use for rationalism ("that dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys") or for the machine-made world of organization men ("mutilated souls in cold morgues of obligation"). But to oppose them he offers nothing more than the slow, visceral, unthinking life of animal existence: "I care for a cat's cry and the hugs, live as water...