Word: benightedness
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Sexually, '50s youth talked a far better game than they played. There was a great deal of enthusiastic probing and, once in a while, a couple went "all the way." As befit that benighted era, the girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged...
"Compared with this place," complained an African diplomat recently, "Russia is a roaring democracy." He was referring to the Central African Republic, a Texas-size country of some 2 million people, most of whom are illiterate. With no railroads, no direct access to the sea and only 120 miles of...
The court's dissenting minority freely conceded that the prior attempts to establish limits to pornography had failed miserably. "After 15 years of experimentation and debate," said William Brennan, "I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that none of the available formulas" are acceptable. He favored dropping all prohibitions...
I write this as much to soothe my trembling nerves as to leave a record of the horror that threatens to pitch me into the final abyss of madness. The dreams, if they are indeed dreams, have long since passed nightmarish intensity, though they began innocently enough. The first took...
At times that debt has proved costly. Until recently, the Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency...