Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there is Dostoevsky, who, says Fyodor, the hero of Nabokov's The Gift, "turned Bedlam back into Bethlehem." Nabokov doesn't like old Fyodor because of his mysticism, his sentimentality, his journalese. There is a difference of type: Dostoevsky was a rough writer, who often scrawled or dictated under the burden of absurd deadlines, and Nabokov is a careful, multiple re-writer. Nabokov's condemnation must also be seen as the answer to a question forced especially on any Russian writer: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It is a question of native sensibility...
...Guard provides one of the best shows in town, without cover or minimum. At the height of the evening, clusters of singles stand sardine-fashion, gripping their drinks and watching the action. By midnight, the place is a low-lit, smoky, shrieking bedlam-a blend of screeching rock and swirling bodies. Over in the Other Room, a special chamber for the post-35 set, a champagne music duo is playing Make It Through the Night...
...cancel the contract by having the paper seller of the beans pay him his profit in cash. At the Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT)-where more than half the commodity action takes place-and other exchanges, such transactions are made in a bedlam of shouting and waving by "pit traders" who do the buying and selling for brokers forwarding orders from clients...
Because despite all the talk, Harvard is no nest of erotic bedlam. And oddly enough, coed living appears to be partially responsible for the sexual stalemate. It maximizes the opportunities for sex--sex would be as natural as a stinger after dinner. But sex at Harvard doesn't seem to be much past the talking stage. Harvard has failed to naturalize the situation it contrived for itself. And the reasons for this go deeper than coed living...
...Referee Arthur Mercante signaled the fighters to continue. Foreman obliged by hitting the nearly helpless Frazier with a head-snapping right cross that put him down for the sixth and final time. Mercante stopped the slaughter at 1 min. 35 sec. of the second round. In the ensuing bedlam, Foreman shoved his way to Frazier's corner and told the fallen champion that "I respect you more than any man in modern boxing. You were a great champion." Frazier, glassy-eyed and bleeding from a split lower lip, muttered, "Right...