Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conditions success is hard to come by. I suppose what I miss most in The Barrios of Manta is an account of the periods of utter lassitude which can strike and immobolize Americans abroad. The days--and there could be a whole row of them--when local food plays havoc with one's intestines, and when the kids in English class or the women in nutrition class give the same wrong answer, or no answer at all, for the hundredth time: these are part of anybody's Peace Corps experience. How to deal with them remains very much an individual...
...agreement to "release" Goldberg to the Faculty -- to Dean Ford -- for the first day of his three-day visit. Thus, informally, the Institute was still no "speaker's bureau." Goldberg was speaking publicly under other auspices. But everyone at the Institute admitted that the speech would make havoc of its plans. A number of meetings with undergraduates, which had been planned for Sunday, were scratched. And Institute officials realized that the two-hour public session would probably overshadow the rest of the visit, that Goldberg would spend the next two days tired and "tied up in knots...
...heaven's sake, let's think ahead this time! If the ignition on my neighbor's car can cause interference on my hi-fi and TV, think of the electronic havoc that would be wrought in a city full of cars powered by electricity. The car must be replaced by mass transportation in urban centers-there is no other choice...
Construction will undoubtedly cause some "havoc" in the Yard, Arthur D. Trottenberg, assistant dean of the Faculty, said yesterday, "but nothing" we couldn't put back together again...
...WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light...