Word: vaines
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...Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they sally forth and produce huge, energetic books. Ego--the vain notion that they have some idea why things are so fucked--is their motive force. These are the writers of the ! and the Capital Letters and the almost never-ending sentences, the kaboom school...
...didn't cry." Back in his basement command post, Majeski concluded that Abbott was a broken man, if still a vain...
...Gregory obviously seeks the intensification of experience that can result from a daily questioning of one's routines. Neither wants to pick a fight or, for that matter, make a convert. At most, it would seem, André wants to make certain that his odyssey was not in vain, that he learned something for his trouble. And, it must be said, there are several anecdotes that are not without interest in the retell ing, one or two observations about the ways of the world that are acute...
...speech to the Israeli parliament, the Egyptian President tried to explain his daring move: "There are moments in the lives of nations and peoples when it is incumbent upon those known for their wisdom and clarity of vision to survey the problem, with all its complexities and vain memories, in a bold drive toward new horizons." Characteristically, Sadat found the flexibility to forget past Arab-Israeli hatreds, just as he had once forgotten his alliances with the Nazis, Nasser and the Soviets. Sadat was never unstable. Rather he was an ideologue who set different targets at different times for himself...
...have looked in vain for the overriding moral issues that would cause the air controllers to break their oaths not to strike [Aug. 24]. Today there are so many "good" excuses to ignore inconvenient constrictions of honor that only a fool lets such a matter interfere with a clever tax return, an increase in profits or a successful strike...