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...pace for most of the first two miles. Leading the pack through a brisk 4:28 mile, the flying junior dualed B.U.'s Pete Hoss for the lead throughout the second, with Pottetti close behind. Just before the two-mile mark, Colburn charged up a hill "like a goddam maniac," in Coach McCurdy's words. Pottetti followed suit and Hoss was left in the dust ten yards back...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Crimson Harriers Win in Fifth Meet | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...decision to exist must be the most irrational act of all. For once man sees through his fictions, there can .be no rational basis for living, a judgment that recalls Camus' point: the only philosophical question is suicide. "I subsist and act insofar as I am a raving maniac," Cioran writes. "It is by undermining the idea of reason, of order, of harmony, that we gain consciousness of ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosophers: Visionary of Darkness | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...formula female (prettily played by Joan Hackett) has a formula little boy, and the threesome winsomely provide the formula scenes-the nursing-his-wounds idyl, the making-him-take-a-bath episode, the surrogate father bit. It is an immense relief when Donald Pleasence turns up as the maniac bad guy with an interest in rape and torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Will Penny | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Maniac. Determined to show that the U.S. means business, the Planning Committee endorsed McNamara's suggestion for a limited call-up of air units, and decided to take the matter to the United Nations. Johnson also appeared on a nationwide TV hookup to explain the Reserve mobilization-as had Kennedy when he called up the Reserves for the 1961 Berlin confrontation and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. In a somber three-minute talk delivered hurriedly and rather flatly, he pledged that "we shall continue to use every means available to find a prompt and peaceful solution." But he also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence against you North Korean Communists is overwhelming, and I am in no mood to listen to an obfuscating smoke screen." Pak, in turn, scored Lyndon Johnson as a "war maniac" and added: "They are burning Johnson's effigies today, but tomorrow they will burn Johnson alive." His rhetoric was a match for Pyongyang radio, which described how North Korean attacks had "left the U.S. imperialists shivering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

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