Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs of human decay are everywhere in the welfare hotels of New York; they contaminate the very air. At the Hamilton Hotel on Manhattan's West Side, junkies, prostitutes and gaunt young toughs haunt the vomit-stained hallways in search of a fix or their next mugging victim. Though classified as "temporary" by the Department...
...under the AEC's existing safety standards for nuclear power plants. Ironically, the scientists, Arthur R. Tamplin and John W. Gofman, who have just amplified their case in a book sardonically titled 'Population Control' Through Nuclear Pollution, did their work at Seaborg's old scientific haunt, the Lawrence Radiation Lab, which is entirely supported by AEC funds. The AEC vigorously denied their charges, but Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, found them serious enough to ask for an independent investigation by the A.A.A.S. In particular, Muskie wants...
...century began, the settled rules of neoclassicist art could no longer contain the experience of a generation of Germans who had grown up with war, conquest and instability. The dark woods and branching Gothic vegetation that Dürer and SchÖngauer had engraved came back to haunt living artists; the full force of literary romanticism, with its themes of love, death, exile and transcendence, played over them. The caped solitary figures in Caspar David Friedrich's paintings, staring mutely at the horizon with backs turned, are like footnotes to Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther...
Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, said the proposal, if passed, would usher in "a principle of non-disciplinary disorder that may haunt us for a decade...
Persistent fear of bodily injury. "Conscious and unconscious fears of mutilation and death haunt these patients. They openly discuss fear of castration. As with most fantasies, this one has some basis in reality: the loss of testicle in a cycle accident is not unknown...