Word: abyss
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...common human experience, we are each reduced to an isolated clump of matter, Lacking any basis for communicatio with others. Muhammad's call for a new look at learning is a call for nothin short of total alienation. Harvard was not created in order to follow him into the abyss, but to find the planks with which a bridge may be built across it. Amalia Kessler...
...Wyoming and Colorado, the other on news accounts of plans to raise the $1.86 grazing fee (a cow and her calf for a month) to $3 or maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose it all." He held out hope that Clinton could adopt a discount rate for the smaller ranchers...
...confined to a room and forbid from the activity she loves most--writing. Her creative mind, demanding stimulation, creates fantasies of a woman trapped under the pattern of the wallpaper. Walling, with the help of ominous Bartok music, brings the audience to the brink of insanity, to the abyss of madness into which she herself is rapidly descending...
...else what? Clinton, speaking to a group of business leaders and lobbyists, peered into the abyss. He described open-ended decline, a most un- American falling off. Salesmanship: for an instant, Clinton touched the American fear that the nation might find itself transformed, for the worse, beyond recognition. But then he proffered the brighter scenario, if things are done the Administration's way: a growing economy, jobs, the "great American middle class" rewarded for its labors and sturdy virtues...
...bears. Still, her singing transcends commonplace melodies to find the anguish between the words, behind the music. Even cowgirls get the blues, but McEntire's vibrant vocals seem to say there's hope in the deepest of doldrums. Reba's pure-country voice is a lariat across an abyss...