Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling rather than thought, a disciple of the heart's reasons rather than the mind's reasonings. The emotional proposition at the core of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is undeviating: life is an undeclared war. As Williams has dramatized it, that war is conducted on two fronts. The lacerating confrontations between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, between Big Daddy and his son Brick and Maggie the Cat, are blistering barrages of domestic car nage. They are also metaphors for a more profound and transcendent struggle, the war against...
...that great war, Williams argues, the only cease-fires are the truces of love, in which two people give each other to each other in an affinity of body and spirit. For a brief moment, they are immune to the world's malice, corruption and despair. In a transport of ecstasy, they defy the cruel and inexorable laws of the universe. Inevitably, the war is resumed...
...Wren had rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666, creating out of its ashes a new city-as indomitable an assertion of man's stubborn will to survive as was Churchill's trumpeted defiance when the bombs fell on Wren's London during World War...
...night of Dec. 29, 1940, St. Mary took a direct hit during one of the Luftwaffe's heaviest air blitzes. Only the stone walls and the twelve Corinthian columns that had lined its spare interior remained aloft. After the war, the Diocese of London decided not to rebuild the church, since it stood in what had become the financial district of London. Too few parishioners lived within the old city's boundaries to attend it. Instead, the church was scheduled to be razed for a city redevelopment project -until dilemma and opportunity met in Westminster's quest...
Antiterra's "current events" rove timelessly between an imagined future, in which Mississippi is run entirely by Negroes, and a fabled past, in which the Crimean War, occurring in 1886, is fought with modern war planes. For a while, space and time are suspended. Ultramodern "dorophones" ring, planes fly, and magic carpets skim cool glades without so much as a patent pending...