Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never think this could happen," one man said. "But it could happen to me." One lady, Miss Irenic Burns, had come over from South Cove where she said she was faced with a similar situation. "This was what the Jews did to the Arabs," she said. She looked out to the Street, "All those cops for two old ladies." The crowd appeared to resent the police, but the police did not seem to be enjoying their job. One man pointed out that they were only doing a task they hated. If they refused to do it, they could be fired...
...inspired Harvard defense, strengthened considerably by the return of left linebacker Gary Farneti, held the formidable Dartmouth rushing attack to 165 yards, 200 yards under its average. The defense was also able to come up with crucial stops to prevent Dartmouth from making the score any more embarrassing...
...come up with romantic culture heroes as good as our imaginary Dick Farina very often. Why does someone feel obliged to come along and destroy them with one or another dispensable version of the truth...
...only exceptions I have come across are the works of Richard Brautigan, Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone, possibly Pynchon's Crying a Lot 49, and Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. It is not Farina's occasional reference to Buddy Holly that makes him post-rock, but rather the impression one gets from the novel that it was written with the Stones constantly playing in the background. The book is driven by a constant mindless throb of energy...
...what it is: "We live in a Beckett world, filling up time. The Proposition presents the games we play and simply satirizes them. It offers no way out, and in that, it is a theatre of desperation. But I'm not sure that theatre can ever be therapeutic. People come to laugh and be entertained. They want to see bedrooms and bathrooms, and that's what we give them in The Proposition...