Word: oblivion
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SCHULTE STORES may follow the cigar-store Indian into oblivion. General Stores Corp. will sell off its 145 D.A. Schulte cigar stores around the U.S., hopes to replace them with six super-drugstore chains in addition to the two (Chicago's Ford Hopkins and Stineway) that it now owns...
...There are those of the South (I am white) who hail the . . . decision . . . I have genuine faith that the Talmadges and the like will be trampled into oblivion with this new mode of thought that the young intellectuals of the South are developing...
...something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...
...studied at Tokyo University, got interested in Sesshu. the great 15th century Japanese Buddhist painter, and this led him to Zen Buddhist monasteries, where he used to sit for hours under the supervision of monks, trying to learn to exclude all thought from his mind, submerge himself in peaceful oblivion. In the early '30s he went to Europe, where he came under the influence of Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Arp and Alexander Calder. Says he: "I'm a fellow who has been suffering between the East and West for 30 years...
...shocked to see Senator McCarthy's face on the cover of the March 8 issue. This man is not news! . . . Let this blatherskite of an Irishman sputter and fume himself into oblivion...