Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead alone cannot entirely account for it. Nor can the unsettling plaint of Austin's police chief that "this kind of thing could have happened anywhere." What is ultimately so disturbing about the 23 lives so taken is that nearly all were snuffed out for no reason and at random. In almost every case, they were unnamed and unknown to their killers, the incidental and impersonal casualties of uncharted battlefields that exist only in demented minds. They were sacrifices to the irrational, wherein lies, as it always has for reasoning man, the ultimate terror. They were victims of the blind...
...Steagle (Random House) by Irvin Faust, 42, a Long Island child-guidance counselor, let the reader beware: this pop novel pops so violently that it cannot safely be perused without welding goggles. It tells the story of a man in whom two personalities merge-as pro football's Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles once merged into "The Steagles." The man is Harold Aaron ("Heshy") Weissburg, a nice Jewish intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote...
...cops into the area. They were outnumbered and all but engulfed. Dozens of fires flickered eerily over the sweating mob. Soon parts of Hough were plunged into darkness as electric power lines and street lights were shorted by flames. Negro snipers manned the rooftops and began shooting at random in the dark. Police tried desperately to herd people off the streets to protect them from crossfire between snipers and police. One young Negro woman, Mrs. Joyce Arnett, was searching frantically for her children when policemen pushed her into an apartment building. Hysterical, she ran to a window and screamed into...
...random sampling of students showed a tendency to avoid any discussion of U.S. foreign policy, but when they were pressed on the issue they would generally point to the Dominican Republic episode as indicative of our strong-arm tactics. Many of the students felt that although the U.S. is generous with its aid and loans to the "developing nations," there are too many strings attached, and that too much money comes under the condition that it be used to buy U.S. goods...
Some of the songs, especially the opener, "Row, Row, Row," needed another day of rehearsal: there was enough random foot-wriggling and arm-moving to be bothersome. The three piece orchestra (two pianos and a drum--kazoo and whistle from time to time) was by itself smoothly professional. It's worth going to hear them if only to convince yourself that honkey-tonk and marches are closer art froms than you realized...