Word: dankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard way-by a tough and unsentimental study of himself. Here is his account of himself at 20: "I moved from one fitful job to another, improvisations without issue; dreamed my sumptuous dreams of canopied barges on the Nile and throbbing Bentleys in Biarritz; woke with strangers in dank attics; nursed the one undarned, too tightly fitting suit-and plotted my escape. Try as I may, I cannot bring into focus the young man of 20. If we were to meet today, we would have little to say to each other. [There would be] his ruthless naiveté, his clammy...
They were kept for months in the total blackness of a dank cell in a Laotian mountain prison, their lacerated bare legs locked each night in crude wooden stocks, helpless to do anything more than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained...
...grinding portraits of working-class life in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. His plays and stories then could deal freely with the down-and-outers: barefoot bosyaki (hoboes) on the bum along Russia's great rivers; whores and thieves snarling "Ekh!" at one another in the dank cellars of Moscow; Lumpenproletariat in shiny leather jackets and dull despair. Gorky seemed a sort of Hemingway with heartburn...
...automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out "an adventure-minded man. Most of his intellectual powers must go toward the discipline of accepting his dull, dank existence without questioning, without wondering, without upsetting the influence of ambition. To live, one's ambition must die." The "wretched tasks" and discrimination of the "pre-automation" age are, according to Asbell, destined to wither away with the help of the state and a concerned public...
...great majority of Harvard men and women must see the indisputable advantages of comradeship in intellect. No more will they shy away from the dank, depressing, surrealistically bleak landscape of Lamont (and Radcliffe Library in its sexless hours). No more will they set up shop to study, only to fall asleep with stunning promptitude...