Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam; Mom and Sis could be every uncommitted American woman, worried sick about her boy or her beau, but hoping against all evidence for the best. And Jeremy may not be kidding when he says that in Viet Nam "I died." Alive or dead, he is the twisted ghost of every Camelot ideal. This good boy went off to war; now he has returned, the hunter haunted, to turn Thanksgiving dinner into a deathday party for all domestic illusions...
...potential power of mood, of attitude, is immense. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," Emerson wrote. But Americans sometimes consider matters of mood to be unmanly, or fraudulent, or self-deceptive. "It's almost like the old ghost dances that the Indians used to go through in hopes that they could bring back what they had lost," says Carol Stack, professor of public policy at Duke University. "People today are performing their own version of the ghost dance, only it's not called a ghost dance any more. It's called being patriotic." Americans tend to deny that their...
That problem will not affect Times Beach, Mo. Windows in the houses there are boarded up, and the wind whistles down the lonely streets of a newly created ghost town. Last year more than 2,000 inhabitants left when the water and ground were found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of dioxin...
...instance, "liberal white guiltiness" is supposed to explain the sympathy of white radicals for Black militants "The ghost of Senator for McCarthy" is palmed for the moderate distrust of radicals. And in a remarkable passage, a few scattered antiwar demonstrations are credited with the "quarantine" of President Johnson...
Each of the twenty-five short chapters that make up Home Before Dark seems to be written as a separate diary entry, with the daughter warmly circling around the ghost of her father until she has "worked him out for herself." There is a feeling in this book that everything was meant as a therapeutic exercise for one daughter's unusually strong affiliation with...