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that is, to show no curiosity whatsoever.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
Nevertheless, there is no bath.
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.
And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
There is no room for error or waste.
Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
This is not to say that the South is no longer agrarian ; ;
And it is certainly no slight to either of them to compare both their achievements and their impact.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
There is no more `` plot '' than that ; ;
He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;
another wagon has no dog, and therefore is `` devoid of interest ''.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.

is and time
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.
At the same time, he is plainly sympathetic, clearly friendly.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.
How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.
For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.
It is notable that at this time he was writing with admiration of Cimabue's and Poussin's way of filling space.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.

is and writes
`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
'' Patchen is still the rebel, but he writes in a doleful, mournful tone.
writes: Does the cholesterol go down when most of the thyroid gland is removed??
What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.
Mark Arnold-Foster writes: `` People are leaving ( West Berlin ) because they think it is dying.
`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.
A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.
It should be admitted, too, that there is a good percentage of lapsed or nonchurchgoing Catholics ( one paper writes 50 per cent ).
George E. Sweazey writes: `` There is danger in trying to make admission to the Church so easy and painless that people will scarcely know that anything has happened ''.
Mr. Philip Toynbee writes, for example, that `` in terms of probability it is surely as likely as not that mutual fear will lead to accidental war in the near future if the present situation continues.
`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.
The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.
Expanding upon Foucault's position, Alexander Nehamas writes that Foucault suggests " an author [...] is whoever can be understood to have produced a particular text as we interpret it ", not necessarily who penned the text.
Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.
Snorri further writes that Asgard is a land more fertile than any other, blessed also with a great abundance of gold and jewels.
However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.
A further approach, elaborated by André Malraux in works such as The Voices of Silence, is that art is fundamentally a response to a metaphysical question (' Art ', he writes, ' is an ' anti-destiny ').

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