Word: oblivion
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...thought he then takes up is arresting: "We slept, in the dark, sweet exhaustion after love, for hours in near oblivion." What's this? Read on: "It was no time for the telephone bell, but it rang. And rang. As if a fishhook had caught in the back of my skull and I was reeled upward from the nourishing dark, and at last I heard it, reached for it, angrily." Spillane Agonistes, but what is it all about? Well, someone has called to say there is a live vampire to be interviewed. The caller was overstating the case...
...HAVEN, Conn,--At a Yale fraternity, the bartender, a relic of the days when old St. Paul's and Groton boys would gather around his domain and jovially drink themselves into oblivion, lamented a bigone era as he sat alone in the darkened club house early last Tuesday evening...
...happier mood suffuses a stroll grandmother takes with her tiny grandson. "What will you be when you grow up, and where will I be than?" she questions the oblivion 1st, with a wistful but optimistic view of the future. Her strongest link with the future, although the successfully hiden it from both children and husband alike, in a sure fore knowledge of her own approaching death. This is to be her first and last visit to Tokyo. But the never lets her intuition become evident; she cannot lower herself by making her children feel guilty, though they have sinned against...
Discounting the improbability of such a group being able to schedule more than one meeting every other month, there is some ominous writing on the wall for the Shareholder 15. Like its predecessors which "involved" students in the decision-making process, this nebulous advisory body is earmarked for oblivion. Unless Bok consciously picks firebrand members to insure the committee's aggressiveness, the Shareholder 15 will likely sputter in the shadow of its Corporation companion...
...VALERIE KUSHNER, a POW's wife, said recently that "Nixon's final solution seems to be to bomb the prisoners and all of Indochina into oblivion." Our present policy only offers America flag-draped coffins, wasted money, more POWs imprisoned in North Vietnam, aging wives and dying mothers in the States, and hundreds if not thousands of screaming Vietnamese wives and children fleeing from the reign of exploding napalm so methodically dropped by men who should return to a weary America. Until January, at the earliest, the decision lies with a two-faced administration...