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...Lockhart was suffering from a "fugue" or flight from reality, brought on by intense fear of a new war. His ordinary stream of consciousness was "suspended," his higher and lower brain levels "dissociated." Hence he had no understanding of the "nature and quality of his act." When his brief gust of abnormal activity had passed, he completely forgot what he had done. Most likely, he would get such "storms" again...
...night. So these two get together and the "Dog Star" sails across the Atlantic. Steam all the way, mind you. That's about all there is to this "Rulers of the Sea" flick, and it's not enough. Sometimes the thing moves so slowly that you wish a good gust of wind would some around and help those engines along. Not that it isn't a hell of a lot more interesting than a History I exam. If you like good photographic shots of ships plowing into heavy scas and steel slithering on steel down below why you might even...
...nursed one of the most protracted literary angers of his time. Like other English writers who fought and survived, he was unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...
Lionel Joseph Friedman, Matthew Page Gaffney, Jr., Ramer Bundlie Holtan, Scott Russell Inkley, Walter Baird Kamp, Harold Katz, Joseph Michael Leahey, Charles Henry McCroskey, Leonard Gust Pappas, John Martin Ward, Floyd Gerald Werner...
...writing this book, Odon von Horvath was walking along the Champs Elysees in Paris. The usual crowd was all around him, straining against a high wind. It was June, and the trees were gay and green with their new foliage-except for one huge, dying chestnut tree. A sudden gust swept against it. It tottered, cracked, started to fall. Von Horvath, preoccupied, did not hear the people scream as he walked into its shadow. The dead tree crushed him dead, and Odon von Horvath had his wish...