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Word: livid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lookout himself, has the gift of using sometimes lyrical, sometimes colloquial, language to describe the woods, the men, and the fire that consumes both: "Each time the cull deck shifted, tons of fuel would resettle and a hundred dozen sparks would be sucked upwards like the spores of some livid fungus." As his dispirited warriors of the soul wander the fire-blasted countryside, a suspenseful psychological drama is created that subtly expresses the themes of innocence, guilt and the corruption of the individual by society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dispirited Warriors | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

WHILE MOST OF YOU were perishing in the diabolical black fire of this neo-Dadaist life in America, agonizing over Harvard's impending football doom like a particle in the livid-frigid Flux, I decided to drop in on the Cecilia Society and the Glee Club concerts at the still point of the burning world. "Song is the key," I reasoned, "for only the rapture of song links such disparate spirits as Arjuna, Chemosh, Mailer, Nixon, Tristan, Bruckner, and the confluence of latent universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions...

Author: By Chris Rotchester, | Title: Zarathustra | 11/25/1968 | See Source »

...piece, Mailer offers some constructive criticism to journalism by citing a newspaper account of a confrontation at the GOP National Convention between some Reagan Girls dressed in red, white and blue tights and a group of black demonstrators from the Poor People's March. "Were the Reagan Girls livid or triumphant?" he asks. "Were the Negro demonstrators dignified or raucous or self-satisfied?" Mailer's questions seem to the point. There is, as he says, "no history without nuance...

Author: By Lawrence Allison, | Title: Mr. Mailer and the myth of objectivity | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

Matter of Duty. The warmth lasted until the 1962 Sino-Indian war in the Himalayas. When the Indian army abruptly collapsed in Assam, Washington and London hastily poured in weapons and military supplies. The Pakistanis were livid. Officials charged that President Kennedy had broken his promise to consult with Ayub before making any arms shipments to India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Ending the Suspense | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...large crowd had gathered in front of the Squash Courts. An ambulance was parked at the curb, and two attendants were carrying out the body. The Chief stopped the stretcher before it reached the ambulance and lifted one corner of the sheet. Biff blanched. The corpse was an unusually livid color and the face was twisted into a macabre grimace. Bundie swallowed hard and followed the Chief into the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biff Bundie, University Cop: The Circle of Seven | 5/19/1965 | See Source »

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