Word: vaines
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...found celebrity with philosophical calm. What had been his toughest experience? "To have lost my comrades-in-arms." And the most pleasant experience? "Nothing-nothing pleasant happened to me through all these 29 years." Still, he was not quite willing to admit that it had all been in vain. "My country today is rich and great," he said. "When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside the point...
...line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...
...think I've ever been so damned mad in my life! After spending the day trying to cope with the truckers' strike, waiting in vain at the gas station, I come home and read your article about an $86 billion expenditure for defense. When will we understand that the willingness to defend our country is in direct proportion to the quality of life at home? We must attend-and fast-to rectifying our problems here, and to hell with defense...
Betzner and the others may of course have made their break in vain, especially if Rome eventually heeds a growing number of Catholic theologians who say that women can and should be ordained...
...dogmatic ideological totalitarianism will ever take root. But the apathy in moral questions to which a pluralistic society may so quickly lead is more insidious than authoritiarian strictures, but it is not less dangerous. At a time when, weary of useless strife and a long war waged in vain, the emphasis, particularly at the university, is on the equivalent value of a wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity--or docility and moral resignation--it is a good and necessary thing to remember that there are things which are right and things...