Word: contemplatione
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In the 1960s the indirect approach to the Bomb seemed to be changing. In 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was produced, and in 1964 Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. One was a standard something-is-wrong-with-nature film that made monsters of benignities, the other a headlong black...
For example, the contemplation of how Oskar might train his anus to speak instead of fart is just one of a multitude of Oskar’s fantasized inventions. Another is a birdseed shirt, so that when wingless humans need to “make a quick escape,â?...
Walters says that the weekly walk is ultimately more contemplative than political for him. He does not consider himself a pacifist in general, but says that these vigils allow him a moment of contemplation about the suffering occurring overseas.
In January Barack Obama, 43, will become the only African American in the U.S. Senate--and just the third in the past 100 years. Although that alone should be ample cause for contemplation, Obama's is really a story about what might be. In the past year, Obama has been...
Tucked away in the by-lanes of Baghdad's upscale Yarmouk district, the Omar al-Mukhtar Mosque is an unimpressive structure. Gray cement and concrete, it boasts no glittering dome, no grand courtyard, no elaborate stucco work on the ceiling. The loudspeakers on its single minaret are set at a...