Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...menu featured California grapes and orange julius drinks. Slides of the Golden Gate and of Big Sur flashed on a screen in the middle of the dining hall, and from the speakers blared, who else?, the Beach Boys. The old Harvard dark wood-panelled dining hall walls were plastered with airline odes to the joys...
...nurses started taking the babies from the mothers. Jones kept saying, 'Hurry, hurry!' But the people were not responding. The guards then moved in and started pulling people, trying to get them to take the potion." Clayton had seen enough. "It was dark by now. I went around to each of the guards, embraced them and told them, 'I'll see you later.' I skipped out into the bushes. All the time I kept saying to myself, 'I can't believe this. Jim Jones...
...surface, European life seems glossier than ever. The roads leading to Rome are crammed with shiny new cars, the pricey restaurants of Paris are crowded with smartly dressed diners, and shops from Stockholm to Seville do a brisk pre-Christmas business in luxury items. But there is a dark underside to this bright picture. Unlike the U.S., the industrial nations of Europe never really recovered from the 1974-75 recession, in part because they avoided rapid-growth policies for fear of aggravating inflation. A consequence, as well as a continuing cause, of the sluggishness is the decline of three basic...
Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Dutton; $7.95) is one of the last poems Americans learned by heart. ''The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep" has resonances that go far beyond the ice-glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every...
...Sufi or Zen Buddhism, and the followers of individual cult leaders like Jim Jones or Guru Maharaj Ji. But since academic sociologists refuse to take these groups seriously enough to study them, the general ignorance on the whole matter may be lightened by a few generalized stabs in the dark...