Word: languors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conformists he wrote about, and his bludgeoning style proved appropriate for depicting men of unexpected intelligence thrown into situations where long-hidden sensitivities are laid bare. The excitement of From Here to Eternity lay in the author's recognition that his spirit of negation was not a symptom of languor or hopelessness, but of a conscious anti-social bent. The awkward writing did not seriously flaw the novel's tone of anguished experience: Jones was justifying his existence through the printed word. The drama he evoked out of his own sweat and blood and pathos was at times self-pitying...
...University of Wisconsin, 83 students were arrested after 20 major firebombings. Governor Warren Knowles called out 2,100 National Guardsmen to cope with the violence. As elsewhere, though, there was a sort of Dada contrast between incendiary violence and collegiate languor: couples walking hand in hand, playing tennis, spinning Frisbees, sailing across Lake Mendota. After one of many confrontations with the National Guard, a student shrugged nervously: "Well, I just threw my first rock." The atmosphere was entirely different at Grinnell College in Iowa. When protesters broke a window by accident, they collected $14.39 to replace...
...Langer in this Winter's games bes earned much publicity, most of it unfavorable for the NCAA. Officials of this organization probably never anticipated such developments, especially since a player as unsensational as Languor was involved. But as a result of their attempt to exert power, they may have lost more than they had hoped to gain. The Ivy colleges have unanimously declared themselves to be against the NCAA stand, and such open defiance doesn't do much to forward the athletic agency's attempts at authority...