Word: hauntings
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Lost wars haunt people. In some ways the South is still haunted by the Civil War. Hitler might never have come to power but for the fact that the Germans were defeated in World War I. The U.S. never lost a war before Viet Nam, and, undeclared though it was, most Americans are so haunted by it that they have wiped an eraser across the blackboard of their minds...
That stricture has come back to haunt Harvard in the past few months as persistent opposition has forced the University to reconsider its plan to build an underground library beneath the formal garden...
...Jackson," says Richard Wade, "they'd have no troops for the job. Liberals have influence but no power." Then he stops for a moment and raises his hand. "But the liberal presence is out there. It can be neglected only so far. If it comes together, it can haunt...
...finest of the series is the two-record collection The Meeting and The Source with Jackie McLean sitting in on alto with Dexter on tenor. Dexter's The Apartment has some excellent moments also. Dexter fled the U.S. because nobody appreciated his greatness. Fortunately, he's back to haunt...
...this and in the epilogue, Scorsese achieves a near-perfect identification between his hero and his audience; like Travis, we have been aching for this release, and now that it has been granted, we're left cold, drained, and a bit removed from ourselves--like the denizens who haunt the all-night Bellmore Cafeteria...