Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...base enlisted men's club, which used to be an edgy center of booze-and boredom-bred friction, is a joyful and jumping place, with dim lights, rock music and girls. Every Wednesday night is "soul night," on which some 500 sailors, 80% of them black, dance to the music of the Exquisite Diatonics and treat their dates to 40¢ drinks. Bachelor officers don psychedelic sports shirts and casual sweaters to meet local girls at their own club and shake to such groups as the Swingers or the Sounds of Time...
...boys in the ivory tower he left behind.) But "history" is not enough, not when Wolfe refuses to consider the larger problems of American life. Perhaps the claims of the Panthers or Chavez override the distaste we experience when presented with a little social slumming. Perhaps in some dim, less-serious way, Society itself is beginning to chafe at the bonds of a larger oppression. But to answer those questions, Wolfe would have to leave the Bernsteins' apartment, putting their soiree into the perspective of contemporary America. And that he doesn't want to do. Wolfe is so transfixed...
...bank to pay a $240 overdraft, her response was to become a weekend stripper in a Soho nightclub for $72 a session. Confronted by a reporter, she confessed ambiguously, "Oh well, I suppose I couldn't keep it under cover forever," and admitted that the family took a dim view. "At first I felt ashamed to strip completely in front of all those men," added Clare, an Oxford graduate. "But I got used...
...Without hope, and thus without aims, Jack and Harry are unable to communicate to others. They can only toss words back and forth, hardly listening to the other's answer, speaking of memories that have no relevance to their reality. They can only wait for dinner. When the lights dim, they are still on stage, alone and silent...
Toward the end it seemed that Gore was gaining, that the old loyalties to him might overcome Brock's youth and conservatism. But it was not enough, New Deal memories had grown too dim. Brock carried the normally Republican eastern third of the state easily, cut into the Democratic central region, and cleaned up in the rural western end of the state, where George Wallace is popular. An American Broadcasting Company voter profile showed Brock scoring heavily in Memphis, farm areas, suburbs and working-class precincts. From these he put together a majority...