Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eiseley fights a purely scientific view of man with the fury of an underground resistance fighter. "Each one of us," he writes in a cry from the heart, "is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born."
As far as the technological future goes, Eiseley has little doubt that the standard rule of civilization will continue to apply: "Solutions to problems create problems." As if it were perverse salvation, he clings to a classically tragic vision of life. It is a dark journey from birth to death...
Delicious Deception. Journalists had a field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given...
He forced himself to show a Dutchman's overt hatred of Germans, and to feel indifference toward Jews (as Jakov Lind he had despised, in the way a boy despises dull relatives, the Jews who let themselves be freighted off to concentration camps). Because Dutch laborers do not write...
The marchers were solemn and pensive as they walked four miles from the cemetery across the Potomac to the White House, and finally to the Capitol.