Word: poisons
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...Poison...
...true Irishman, Eugene O'Neill was a connoisseur of illusion and self-deceit. He knew they were not necessarily a poison, but often a nourishment, a kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...
Somehow the crucial father-son theme connecting Bloom and Stephen never emerges very clearly. Maybe Vatican II is to blame for drawing the poison out of the old Catholic guilts, but Tom Lee Jones' Stephen, in his wild Irish despair, seems no more interesting than a sullen Fordham freshman on a St. Patrick's Day drunk...
...Most coyotes do not eat sheep; some undoubtedly do. However, it is ridiculous to conduct a wasteful war on public lands and natural forests with poison, booby traps and aerial gunnery against the entire coyote population just to eliminate a few sheep killers...
...rising chorus of charges against ideological backsliding. Examinations in schools were criticized for being revisionist and favoring the children of cadres and former bourgeois. One radio broadcast from Hunan charged that "class enemies" were "enticing young people to read pornographic books and periodicals" in an effort "to poison the masses...