Word: normalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right," he said. "It's got to be something great. Something no one will ever forget." His voice rose in pitch. "Something that transcends the normal, Christmas-as-usual giving of gifts that will be forgotten in a day or two. Gorgo, you're absolutely right. We have to find-The Great Bargain." The fixation had taken hold...
...American literature is the subversion of normalcy, by presenting the gothic element in American life (Poe), the hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor the midwest seems so blithely "normal." For Jones was half-Indian, and in the midwest in the '50s you were not allowed to forget that very long--you were an outsider. At age 18, Jones became a Maoist and made the intellectual synthesis on which he would build his church: that religion is indeed the opium...
Jonestown's members are even more significant than Jones himself, who was distributed and demonic, yet only one of a thousand. Their normal humanity, not their madness or mindlessness, stands out, their journey with undimmed belief from America and into the jungle. It all leads inexorably and even naturally to final dissolution in some unmapped region--just as the hard-bitten crew of the Pequod rowed fearfully yet willingly under the raging Ahab, to the great white whale, to the end of the absolutist quest. How can we so easily write them...
...This is not a normal situation but rather a last resort, pending some structural changes in the prison," Parnell said, adding a corrections official would announce the changes at the end of the week...
...state-run National Iranian Oil Co. was just beginning to restore normal production when hit by Monday's job action...