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• Quell

  Quell artinya memadamkan, mengakhiri, atau mengatasi Definisi quell verba put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force. extra police were called to quell the disturbance sinonim: put an end to, put a stop to, end, crush, put down, check, crack down on, curb, nip in the bud, squash, …

• A Philosopher for Our Time

  Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher who is reputed to be the forerunner of the current vogue of existentialism. In appearance he was a frail and ungainly man. An extremely erudite thinker and writer, he was a potent force in propagating the new approach to live. His philosophy would excoriate those who believed that man …

• Have We Mastered Our Environment?

  Natural disasters tend to nullify the best efforts of mankind. It is as though there are forces at work that are contemptuous of our proud achievements. Who has not read of or seen the waters which deluge our towns and cities, jeopardizing lives and culminating in the destruction of the results of endless work in …

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  The Hammy Old Days

  Actors depend upon their ability to gesticulate almost as much as upon speech to obtain their desired histrionic effects. With them, gesture serves much more than merely to augment speech. When their communication is by gesture alone, it is called pantomime. In the early silent motion picture period, gestures were flamboyant. To show that he …

• A Man of Nature

  Henry Thoreau attempted to confront the problem and solve the enigma of how one might earn a living and yet not become an ignominious slave to the task. He viewed the industrial revolution with antipathy. Man in a servile role to extraneous possessions was a main target of his writings. He believed that one could …