Word: nightmarish
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Earline's life has been nightmarish, but the new black awareness is penetrating even her much abused psyche. "I knew a lot of Black Panthers in New York," she says. "They were trying to help black people with their food and clothing. They are really decent people." Other than Panther Leaders Bobby Rush and Bobby Scale, she has no living heroes-she liked Martin Luther King, John and Robert Kennedy. "But I hope to see a lot of black people become heroes, famous people. I hope to see a black person make it at least halfway...
...consequences can be nightmarish. The New York Stock Exchange, whose members thrive or fail according to their ability to forecast, predicted a few years ago that daily trading volume might hit 10 million shares by 1975. Trading surged past that level in 1968. A mountain of paper work fell on exchange members, and they did not have enough men or machines to dig out. The Big Board went on short trading hours early in 1968, and has still not bounced back to a full trading week. In a similar way, demand for electricity has shocked power-company executives. Managers...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...
...figure in modern Africa. He has appeared in Kenya and the Congo, the Sudan and Nigeria, his belongings piled in an ungainly bundle atop his head, his children skipping naked alongside, his path a dusty road leading nowhere. Still, familiar as the phenomenon may be, there is a particularly nightmarish quality to the scene that has been unfolding in recent weeks along the borders of the West African nation of Ghana...
Exactly what is happening on Brattle Street are three one-act plays, all written by young Americans and all deeply rooted in the nightmarish decade that is now grinding to a halt. A decade of snipings and war, assassinations and drugs, Tiny Tim and Aretha Franklin- Morning, Noon and Night is not so much about these things as of them. And such is the stuff we are made of- we and night mares...