Word: burntout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mogrifications that straight-laced students undergo on the dance floor; one of the only real pleasures of Harvard parties is finding yourself dancing ferociously with someone whose usually upright demeanor only prompts idle fantasy. The room was--except for the intervals when 72 churning legs had been disappointed by burntout equipment (and the hosts had scrambled into the boiler room to bring back the music)--a Bacchanalian sink...
...thinks is inevitable for the U.S. It also gave him "more humility about what individuals can accomplish in a short period of time." On his return, Reich looked up McCarthy campaigners who had gone on to more antiwar marches and discovered to his horror that they had become "burntout cases running on pure energy and not really thinking about what they were doing anymore...