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...column, 923 praised it. Wrote a housewife in Hollister, Calif.: "I asked my 12-year-old son to read it aloud and had to quickly leave the room because some kids cannot understand what makes otherwise steady grownups burst into tears." A former Army colonel found himself harboring the "nightmarish feelings you've put down about wanting the enemy...
...hockey team remembers all too well the nightmarish game in Ithaca last January that saw a 4-3 lead with fifteen seconds to go turn into a 5-4 overtime loss...
...reasons for the calm atmosphere perplex educators and vary from campus to campus. But certainly the May strikes gave students and faculty a nightmarish perception of chaos. Says Albert Hastorf, the Stanford dean of humanities and sciences: "People got scared. In the 'feel-not-think' philosophy they saw their world coming to an end. This fall the point of many lectures has been that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism." On the contrary, it is realized here and there that nonthinking and anti-intellectualism are the real allies of totalitarianism. The Kent and Jackson State killings...
Part victim, part protagonist, Didman drinks and fornicates his way through perversely comic and dreadful, nightmarish scenes, drifting toward a vision of his final destiny: he must become a self-willed pawn of the black-power movement. "Generals, politicians, princes_they killed in quest of power" he maunders to himself. "Why shouldn't an editor? Why shouldn't a middle-class family...
Princeton had some nightmarish games during its losing streak, including a brutal 14-0 thrashing at the hands of B.U., and a 3-2 loss to the second worst team in Division I, Northeastern...