Word: gladding
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...October 1939 in the city of Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia. Weeks later he was conscripted, becoming a tank engineer on the Russian front. Gunhild was born the next year, and on hearing of the birth of his son in April 1944, he wrote to his wife: "I am glad for you that this time it's a boy. In the autumn, I am coming home." Fritz Schröder never came home, and never met his newborn son. On Oct. 4, 1944, two months after Romania declared war on Germany, he was killed, reportedly by a Katyusha rocket, while fighting...
...whole new kind of political entity, one made up of the entire population of the world in all its infinitely complicated, irreducible variety. But how can we the multitude--a vast, far-flung, inchoate bunch of people--reinvent democracy on a global scale? Hardt and Negri are glad you asked. The answer isn't simple--not like, say, electing some kind of international global parliament. Instead, Multitude insists that the new democracy can and must come not from the top down but from below, from the entirety of the multitude working and acting together, spontaneously and collaboratively. In the world...
...with any joy. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards but hasn't found the Oscars a life-changing event. "It feels like an evening of business," she says. "On the years when I'm not there, I'm sitting at home going, 'I'm so glad.'" She's careful to work her babe traits, wearing for an interview supertight jeans and a snug top with flirty ties at the shoulders. She's as thin as an iron poker and sits twice as straight. Hers is a serene face, on which even small emotions register. She smiles...
...doing her thing seriously. Then you have someone like Laura Bush, who is much more in the mold of her mother-in-law. Supportive, with a sense of humor seemingly. I don't know her well, but she seems the right wife for her husband, and I'm glad that she was there on 9/11. And Rosalynn Carter. I knew them, but I was still young. Obviously, she's extremely bright. I keep thinking, What would Rosalynn have done had she been Elizabeth, you know, with a law degree and literature degree? She might not have been that different...
...York City cops and abusive relationships, and I was amazed at the depth of experience around me. Mike summed it up. “I avoided jury duty so many times I got a noncompliance,” he said. “But I’m glad I did this. I learned a lot from you guys.” I wanted to cheer, cry, shake everyone’s hands. Go, Justice, Go! I thought...