Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lost but because Israel destroyed some expensive airplanes in Beirut. Where is the sense of values when world figures and nations collectively and individually object to the loss of property but do not make themselves heard when lives are deliberately destroyed? The condemnation charges against Israel should be withdrawn and a genuine effort made to help the countries of the Middle East find peace...
...last spring, all the ICC's fixed teams in ports and transportation centers of the North as well as the South had been withdrawn. There were no more investigations. In Viet Nam, as in Laos and Cambodia, the ICC was constantly broke. In Saigon, its rickety Citroëns with their tattered ICC flags had become mobile monuments. At one point this year, the ICC in Viet Nam was so badly squeezed for funds that Aigle Azur, the French air charter that provides the battered, ancient Boeing 307 Stratoliners for the weekly commission flights linking Saigon, Pnompenh, Vientiane...
...make a God of me!" Kazantzakis cried out when, as a four-year-old, he was first made aware of death. In his most popular novel, Zorba the Greek, he divided the human longing for a quiet, withdrawn existence and its counterpart, passionate involvement with life, into two separate characters, joyfully granting Zorba, who lusts for life, the final triumph. In his greatest novels, fictionalized versions of the lives of St. Francis and Christ, he portrayed both as men deeply drawn to the fleshly world but agonizingly aware that they must eventually transcend it. While he was writing The Last...
...Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani to study Oriental monasticism and its possible application to the Western contemplative tradition...
Whether they recognize themselves as archetypes or not, anyone who comes near Segal is apt to find himself wrapped in plaster. The despondent male of Motel is, beneath the plaster, his fellow artist and friend Lucas Samaras. The withdrawn girl holding a kitten is his daughter Rena. He even uses himself as a model. For a man with his technique, this is hard to do-but he achieves it by putting his wife to work under his detailed direction...