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...Harvard, Quentin Compson finds his ideal world of the past threatened not only by some rather obnoxious characters who glare rather frighteningly at him out of the present, but also by the irrefutable fact, manifested in the dissolute life of his sister Caddy, that the ideal past never existed not ever could again. In his inability to face the world in its frightening reality, Quentin loses the will to live. His death by drowning in the Charles River on June 2, 1910 perhaps reflects Faulkner's own deepest feelings about man and his problems. Even Dilsey, perhaps, is not more...
Descending the Hill by way of Beacon Street, we pass the State House and the great houses fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing...
...ease the strain on Daddy's eyes on the long trip back home at night, the Vacha Glare-Guard has rectangular filters that clip on over ordinary eyeglasses or are worn on frames of their own. A slight forward tilt of the head banishes the dazzle of oncoming headlights by bringing a small filter tab into the line of vision, blocking out the glare while leaving a clear view of the driver's lane; the larger upper portions of the filters cut glare from overhead lights and rear-view mirrors. Filter tabs may be aligned to suit each...
...throng of young men in black and red war paint charged drunkenly through the explosions and drifting smoke. But for all the smell of gunpowder and the rockets' red glare, Vientiane was not being stormed by the Communist Pathet...
...lived in caves," said William W. Caudill of Houston, "they poked holes in them to let air in and smoke out. The holes got bigger and bigger. Now the holes have eaten up the box." Others added that the all-window building has created still unsolved problems of glare and temperature control...