Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police described the assailant as a white male, 25 to 30 years old, six feet tall, with dark brown, medium length hair. The man weighs about 150 to 160 pounds, has high cheekbones, and was wearing a blue t-shirt and white sweat pants...
...dead boys float in the South Atlantic, and there is no doubt on earth what those dark festivals were leading to. Last Monday, after the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano, British armchair admirals were smugly analytical about the deficiencies of the Argentine forces. One day later Mrs. Thatcher listened ashen-faced in the House of Commons as her Defense Secretary announced the death toll from the destroyer Sheffield. Sobered, the world sat upright. It was precisely because the war had seemed so playful initially that it seemed so dreadful now. If anything, it appeared worse than...
During the dark days after General Wojciech Jaruzelski's imposition of martial law last December, a defiant slogan appeared on walls and in underground publications: "The winter is yours, the spring will be ours." Last week, as tulips bloomed in Lazienki Park and the sun streamed down on the reconstructed facades of Warsaw's Old Town, thousands of Poles tried to turn that threat into a reality. Citizens who had chafed, sullenly and silently, under military rule for five months took to the streets in a nationwide affirmation of their disapproval of Jaruzelski's regime. Chanting "Down...
...metaphysics of war makes this configuration: nuclear bombs preside, in a dark, speculative way, over the human imagination of war. Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism. The wrath of God becomes the dread mushroom and megadeath and firestorm-totality, cessation. It is not relative, like the old wars, but absolute, the utter blank of extinction. Nuclear war sits in the mind like the lurid medieval vision of hell: horrible-and yet, well, hypothetical...
...game was possibly the final contest of the season for the Crimson, a dark-horse candidate for nomination to the eight-team national tournament the weekend...