In the cosmic battle for planetary permanence, the most common outcome should be for the losers to get kicked out of the solar system and into interstellar space.
The biggest disadvantage of permanent fillers is their permanence.
Like their contemporaries the beboppers and the abstract expressionists, Kerouac and his Beat compatriots Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William S. Burroughs were responding to the fragmentation unleashed by Hiroshima, in which all the common verities (faith and family, a sense of permanence) were forever undermined.
In the words of Richard Fogle, "The principal stress of the poem is a struggle between ideal and actual: inclusive terms which, however, contain more particular antitheses of pleasure and pain, of imagination and common sense reason, of fullness and privation, of permanence and change, of nature and the human, of art and life, freedom and bondage, waking and dream".
According to the theory, the attachment to a group, as well as the permanence and involvement in it, can be explained in terms of common identity or common bond.
Carlos will guide the global project finance for permanence initiative, Earth for Life, to build a common vision across WWF and formalize program requirements.
Long after its disappearance as the common tongue of Europe, it survives as a remarkably successful brand, exuding dignity and permanence.
The common thread linking these two conceptions of the city is the passage of time: each suggests a different kind of 'relative permanence,' a co-ordering of times and space that lends orientation to human existence.
They speak of permanence.
