Word: voided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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André Malraux once defined the task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara...
...fill the void, Boston radio and TV stations hired laid-off reporters and beefed up their newscasts, but still were without the legmen to give listeners more than fragmentary local news coverage. An outdoor advertising company teamed with WBZ-TV and WNAC-TV to spread an outsize Page One across two Boston Common billboards twice daily. Some of the most enterprising makeshift newspapers were put out for employees by Boston insurance companies. American Mutual Liability Insurance published a multilith bulletin under the slogan: ALL THE NEWS...
...punished for his thoughts"; "And if every man should be examined upon his oath, what opinion he holdeth concerning any point of religion, he is not bound to answer . . ."; "When an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law will. . . adjudge such Act to be void...
...century and a half later the Massachusetts Assembly was to declare the Stamp Act "against Magna Carta and the natural rights of Englishmen and, therefore, according to the Lord Coke, null and void." And it was to give effect to this same manner of ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court itself was brought into existence...
...city hall in Red-controlled Stienta and, with an angry mob howling outside, they capitulated to the Communist terms. By last week most of the farmers in the district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have...