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...Pirandello saw it, man is involved in the futile illusion and the obsessive quest of trying to catch and know his unknow able self. Dramatically, this quest takes the form of a secret to be ferreted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bait and Hook | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...kept in her room because of the prowler and fired both 'barrels across the hallway between her and her husband's bedrooms. One of the charges took Bill Woodward square in the face. The mystery was how a woman supposedly practiced in the use of firearms could unknow ingly shoot her husband at 10 ft. But former hunting companions were not surprised. One said that Ann, who seemed to take joy in hunting, always seemed to be looking one way and shooting another. Russell Havenstrite, a Los Angeles oilman, who, with his wife, had hunted tigers in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Girl from Kansas | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Again conceding the influence of the passion for gold, how could such immense masses have been accumulated when the simplest mechanical devices were unknow? How was such a feat physically possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL WALKER'S ADDRESS. | 2/12/1896 | See Source »

...this why we are theoretically certain that the seeming world is a world of orderly law, such as common sense and science believe in; and we are practically certain that the unknow real world is a divine and moral world, because it is our duty to treat that unknown world as if it were divine and moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course on Modern Thinkers. | 11/12/1890 | See Source »

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