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...About Bob Jones University students' being forbidden to attend Billy Graham's crusade: I remember a nightmarish day in chapel in 1957 when the university students were asked to stand to show support of the "Jones boys'" denunciation of Graham. Students who remained seated were spoken to by the deans. Supposedly, Graham was "selling out" fundamentalism. With this fundamental lack of Christian love and tolerance, who wouldn...
Nettling Truth. Eventually it begins to dawn on young Fist that, despite his unholy deal, he is as dissatisfied and disorganized as ever. Chum Breed tries to remedy that by feeding him a capsule of LSD. Fist kicks his inhibitions to tatters and even makes a nightmarish descent into Hell. That does it. When he recovers, Fist breaks his contract with the Devil and gladly opts for "the real world, crummy...
T.T.K. leaves behind an unfinished budget for fiscal 1967 and a legacy of bitterness among both foreign and domestic businessmen. If few of them understood the nightmarish problems that any Indian Finance Minister has to cope with, most still held high hopes for their fortunes under the new man, Calcutta Lawyer Sachindra Chaudhuri, who was expected to take a far more flexible approach. Indeed, on news of a change in the post, shares on the Indian stock exchanges staged a brisk rally...
Artzybasheff's art is dominated by his famous anthropomorphic machines and his reified visions of various pretensions, neuroses and complexes in sometimes nightmarish forms. But just about anything could set off Artzy's imagination. A Nude with a Snood is his interpretation of an unfathomable phrase overheard at a cocktail party; a primitive piece of sculpture called Connecticut African came from bits of wood picked up in the barn of his Connecticut farm. Artzybasheff's deep hate of tyranny is exemplified in the show by the extraordinary swastika shapes into which he twisted his caricatures...
Miss Macintosh, who may have been a man and who was almost certainly a suicide. All this is recalled on a nightmarish bus trip, which the middle-aged Vera takes, or does not take, in search of the dead Miss Macintosh...