 More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.  Los Alamos Science - 153. lappuse2002Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Humphrey Tonkin, Timothy G. Reagan - 2003 - 220 lapas
...the opening of Woody Allen's "Speech to the Graduates," in which he notes that More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. (1975: 81) The challenge before us, I would suggest, is to... | |
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...Jewish tradition. He converts anxiety into humor in a speech to undergraduates: "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."31 Many other Jewish comedians, such as Lenny Bruce (1925-1966),... | |
 | Des MacHale - 2003 - 324 lapas
...—CLARENCE DARROW No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion. — STUART HUGHES More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One...despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total destruction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. — WOODY ALLEN I have a memory... | |
 | Saul Landau - 2004 - 220 lapas
...quintessence of a city boy. He also summed up the post-existential mood of the developed world. "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One...pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."" Compare the romantics with Woody's twentieth-century vision. Imagining a new play, he fantasized, "The... | |
 | Saul Landau - 2004 - 224 lapas
...quintessence of a city boy. He also summed up the post-existential mood of the developed world. "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One...extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."8 Compare the romantics with Woody's twentieth-century vision. Imagining a new play, he... | |
 | Benjamin Blech - 2004 - 468 lapas
...depressed by the lessons of history that he told a 1980 college graduating class: "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Woody Allen may well be neurotic. For some he is a prototypical... | |
 | Adeel Khan - 2005 - 216 lapas
...Anthony, 1995, pp. 73, 58. 6. Breuilly, 1996, p. 154. 7. Woody Allen's saying goes: 'More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.' Sherrin, 1996, p. 60. Appendix A The AAQAA's Charter of Resolutions... | |
 | Mark Dever - 2005 - 562 lapas
...decisions. In his movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen began a commencement address, "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness; the other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Ironically, awash in a sea of choices, we sink into skepticism... | |
 | Mick Winter - 2006 - 247 lapas
...Societies, Empires and Cycles 228 Peak Oil Peak Oil Resources 232 INTRODUCTION "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen By the time you're reading this, the situation... | |
 | Deborah Rhode - 2006 - 260 lapas
...challenges. As Woody Allen puts it in a celebrated parody of a commencement address: "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path...hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."1 Almost forty years ago, Time ran a cover story of this genre... | |
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