Word: oblivion
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...succeed in reproducing what I see, even if I live to be a thousand." At his death last week, of a heart attack, he was only 64. He had succeeded in reproducing what he felt-and in the act of creating it, he triumphed over loneliness, existential despair and oblivion...
...American patience wears thin, Lyndon Johnson may find himself in a two-way squeeze. From one side he will be under increasing pressure to bomb the North into oblivion. Already the U.S. has slit open the "red envelope" enfolding North Viet Nam's major industrial centers with a raid on the sprawling Uong Bi power plant at Haiphong; in 18,600 sorties, bombers have plastered targets to within 30 miles of the Chinese border. Yet Hanoi is pouring more men and matériel into the South each month. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a long, costly...
Harvard's game but outclassed basketball team embarks tonight on a three-month journey to oblivion...
...from me," is a typical comment echoing in the dingy expanse of South Station. Cars that look as if they were resurrected from a railroad museum, rumors of past mismanagement, inadequate service--reality quickly catches up to growing myth as the New Haven continues on the downward track to oblivion. Today the railroad has seventy per cent fewer passengers than in 1922, less than half the freight revenue of 1943, one quarter the number of employees of forty years ago. Nothing, including reorganization under trusteeship after the New Haven filed for bankruptcy in 1961, seems to have offered any hope...
...Institution and at the "goldplated age" of "spoon-fed culture" in A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. But his poetry (The Woman at the Washington Zoo) revealed an altogether different world, "commonplace and solitary," filled with terrified, lost souls finding refuge from loneliness only in Proustian reminiscence, fantasy and oblivion...