Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost tactile, a great impacting of . . . blue . . . all around him and suddenly he was in a realm of consciousness he had never dreamed of before and it was not a dream or delirium but part of his awareness...
...vicariate clucked disapprovingly about Musante's strange behavior these past few months. "Many of us were convinced," said one primly, "that Monsignor Musante was a sick man. Recently he didn't seem him self at all. Perhaps he was the victim of some form of sexual delirium." The most notable change in Musante: he re cently went on a diet, lost as much as 60 lbs. from his portly frame...
...Stravinsky: Symphony in C by John Clifford, 20, one of the company's most promising male dancers. While Clifford still has much to learn about the techniques of polishing choreography, the hot wire of raw talent ran through the ballet. His infectious and sportive movements reflected the febrile delirium of young dancers in love with being young, in love with being dancers...
...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered, ranging through the West Side, then spilling across Woodward Avenue into the East Side. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as a force of some 15,000 city and state police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was almost...