Word: delirium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing is vividly accessible, and almost always disturbing. His recurrent subject is the eruption of some dark, violent passion into the turmoil of mental ife, and his prose strains not only to describe this event but to re-create it. Hawkes at peak intensity is the literary equivalent of delirium...
...only that, he won, fighting off seven match points and putting away an incredible overhead at four-all in a third-set tiebreaker to drive his teammates into a season-capping fit of delirium...
Darkness passes the romantic delirium of Born to Run, cuts deeper, lingers longer. The proud prisoners of shore towns, the rod riders and front-porch madonnas, turn up again, but no longer bursting with the same heady spirit. Here the "shutdown strangers and hot rod angels" suffer a sudden, splintering sense of their own settled fates. They crash right up against that darkness in the album's title. There are a lot of victims, like the girl in Racing in the Street, one of Springsteen's best songs, who "stares off alone into the night/ With the eyes...
...month-long World Cup, the eleventh such international competition (the first was held in Uruguay in 1930; 13 nations participated, and Uruguay won). Leaving aside the Chinese (who did not ante up for the TV rights), suckling infants and most women-soccer is almost exclusively a male delirium-this means that virtually every man and boy in Europe and South America, and very large numbers of them in North America, Africa and Asia, and in all the ships at sea, caught some part of the action. In the U.S., where soccer is a late-bloomer passing rapidly from robust infancy...
Tournament fever! The spirit of St. Louis! A carload of Harvard undergraduates survived an extreme case of blue delirium this weekend in Providence, R.I., as Duke University dunked its way to the NCAA finals by defeating both Penn and Villanova...