Word: nightmarish
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...only is the one leg wobbly: it might some day wither altogether and go the way of dyewood, sugar, gold and rubber. Competition from the other coffee countries and from cheap-labor plantations in Africa is increasing. World overproduction is a constant threat. And there is always the nightmarish possibility that some diabolically clever chemist may wreck the market altogether by discovering a cheap, palatable synthetic substitute for instant coffee...
...BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, by Evan Hunter (309 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $3.50). Everybody talks about juvenile delinquency, but Evan Hunter, who used to teach at a New York City vocational high school, has done something about it. He has written a nightmarish but authentic first novel about the problem that should scare the curls off mothers' heads and drive the most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven...
...India-ink drawings on view in Baltimore represent nightmarish characters and situations that fascinate and disturb simultaneously. In Dancer's Whirl, Toledano presents a ball spun by two spidery hands, symbolic of "the world in its present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent...
...deluge of crimes-in some cases up to 1,000 murders apiece -and then were hanged in the courtyard of Lower Saxony's yellow-walled Hameln prison. They were buried on the spot in plain coffins in a common unmarked grave. Most were ex-warders from nightmarish Belsen, including suet-faced ex-Commandant Joseph Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," and his 21-year-old girl assistant Irma Grese, whose particular hobby consisted of turning her fierce dogs loose on Belsen's helpless inmates...
...varsity basketball team should have "stood in bed" last night. Or at least it should have stayed away for the first-half of a nightmarish 73 to 52 loss to Boston College in which it fell behind, 32 to 7, at one point. The Crimson tried hard in the third quarter to make it up, but the closest it came was within nine points after six minutes had gone by. The Eagles won easily after that splurge...