Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designed to Want. Man is adrift on a raft in a boundless ocean, writes Fowles. "From his present dissatisfaction, he reasons that there was some catastrophic wreck in the past, before which he was happy; some golden age, some Garden of Eden. He also reasons that somewhere ahead lies a promised land. Meanwhile, he is miserably en passage." But if man were to find his Utopia, writes Fowles, he would be much more miserable. For man is made to struggle and yearn: "We are designed to want: with nothing to want, we are like windmills in a world without wind...
...megalomania seemed to be De Gaulle's, determined as he was to be the leader of Europe and apparently ready to wreck both the Common Market and NATO if they stood...
...could boast that he had put the G.O.P.. which in August was some $600,000 in the red, back in the black. The more pertinent fact was that the organization that had maneuvered the conservative wing into power in San Francisco had turned into a bumbling, disorganized wreck when faced with conducting a full-fledged campaign on a national scale. And the greatest humbler of them all was Barry, who repeatedly took audiences of superheated partisans and all but lulled them to sleep, who chose to attack public power in the TVA heartland, social security before audiences of oldsters...
...worthless check, a total wreck, a flop...
Like Gibraltar, the tiny, barren is lands of Malta have always been at the crossroads of history. There, 15 centuries before Christ, the Phoenicians set up a trading colony. In 60 A.D., the Apostle Paul found haven on a rocky beach near Valletta after his ship wreck, and in 1565 the Turkish invasion fleet was driven off by the Knights of Malta. More recently, during World War II, the Maltese withstood almost daily bombardment by Axis planes, kept Britain's crucial Mediterranean sea lanes open. For 35 centuries invaders came, ruled, and were swept aside by new invaders...