Word: faint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laboratory of Hallucinations, a surgeon operated on the brain of his wife's lover, pinching here, clamping there, until he had turned the fellow utterly mad. The patient then got up off the table and drove a chisel through the doctor's forehead. Audiences used to faint, shriek, and vomit in the alley outside the theater. One night the house doctor was summoned to the aid of a fallen customer, but the doctor himself had collapsed...
When President Kennedy announced back in January that he expected a modest budget surplus of about $500 million in 1962-63, the few faint cheers were drowned out by a storm of skepticism. The President's expectations were based on more ifs than Rudyard Kipling had in his famous poem: if the economy improved its pace, if Government spending did not rise, if Congress enacted higher postal rates when the Administration wanted them, if the farm bill was passed and had a chance to cut costs. It was if, if, if-and hardly any of the ifs turned...
...also promises to contrast an older type of businessman who manufactured a product of quality and backed it with his name, and a newer type of paper manipulator who merely juggles figures and jiggles stock with irresponsible anonymity. Unfortunately, these promises are not kept. What evolves is a faint melodramatic paraphrase of Playwright Hayes's The Desperate Hours; instead of a hoodlum holding a family at gunpoint for 48 hours, the corporate raider holds an entire board of directors at penpoint for the same time span...
Martin Luther King knows that in the struggle for justice and human dignity in the South he and his people will commit mistakes and may suffer reversals. But these will not cause them to faint, for, as he says, "Freedom is like life. It can not be had in installments. We have it all, or we are not free...
...shouts back "No Testing." Cheers. Marty Peretz walks in and out--some twenty times in five minutes. A small, restive block of freshmen in the balcony brandish furled umbrellas. An air of contained excitement and considerable expectation. The CRIMSON has infiltrated: at least 15 editors scattered throughout the hall. Faint rhythmic applause; let's get something started--and then, for no reason, complete silence. Hughes himself has not yet arrived. Nash will moderate...