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People without Passion. His reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that...
Hope for the Best is a pretty arid comedy. Almost void of plot, it vainly falls back on its second line of defense- its bloodless, undramatic characters; then on its third line- its ideas and talk. The ideas, involving democracy now and to come, are sound but superimposed. The talk, though sometimes diverting and sometimes sharp, is eventually just engulfing...
Behind Russia's drive and Russia's political aims was the stubborn fact that the Soviet Union had emerged as the greatest power in Europe, able (and probably willing) to fill the political void which would be left by the crushing of Germany, and which neither weakened Britain nor weakened France could hope to fill. But instinctively Americans and Britons sensed that this was more than the usual political crisis. Instinctively they sensed that the hands of the clock of history had suddenly bumped ahead to a later hour, that that crisis in western civilization of which World...
...gilt telephone, an apartment crammed .with hundreds of statuettes, swords, costumes, paintings, vases and two secretaries-one American, one Chinese. But he did not own a volcano. He wanted Paricutin because: 1) as a boy he had always wanted a volcano; 2) it might fill a spiritual void; 3) it might (because of minerals) prove a good investment...
Said Sister Elizabeth: "Close the windows and sit down. We will repeat, Void la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crudfix.-This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...