Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conscious of trying to equalize the amenities in various houses, so that each one has a sense of something special," says Assistant Dean of the College Martha C. Gelter. Gelter also points to space in the Houses for common rooms, libraries, or special activities--such as dark rooms or pottery studios--as involving substantial financial commitments. Moreover, House masters receive a discretionary fund in the range of $12,000 annually to support activities such as open houses and special dinners...
Your books on lying and secrecy have looked into some dark corners and therefore have been called "consequentia." I think you would disclose still more ambiguities if your third book were to deal with silence. Merely to show the implications of some primitive distinctions would be helpful; for example, to distinguish between the silence that gives consent and the silence that is the product of the fear to dissent--or the silence that comes when one cannot find words with which to express the emotion of release from some oppressive affliction and the silence that makes one an accomplice...
...Jack McKeon and Alvin Dark...
EVEN THE OBVIOUSLY REAL scenes take on a dream-like quality. At the beginning, Eugenia visits a small chapel, a shrine to the Madonna of Childbirth. The chapel is half-dark, with ancient rows of pillars lit by hundreds of fluttering candles. All about, black clad women are performing the rituals of worship. Eugenia finds that she cannot bring herself to kneel, and asks the sacristan why only women are worshipping. He tells her that child-bearing and the church are their business; she says nothing in reply. All of a sudden, the air is full of small birds that...
...anguish through which nearly all of them had passed. Not a single word did he speak about his own tragedy. He uttered no recriminations. He had lost the thing he wanted all his life, but he seemed to be at peace. I left him there, sitting alone in the dark. When I returned, shortly after dawn, Nixon was still in the same chair. He had a way of sitting on the small of his back, and that was how he was sitting now. The gray light of morning filled the room. There was the smell of a fire that...