Word: screaming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leftist terrorism has continued. Two weeks ago the guerrillas killed one of their prime targets-Lieut. Colonel Noé Delgado Villegas, former chief of the police "complaints section," popularly known as the "Scream Section" because of the tortures that allegedly occurred there. But the leftists' bloody record is now being challenged by a rightist group that calls itself Ojo por Ojo (Eye for an Eye). Organized after West German Ambassador Karl von Spreti was murdered by F.A.R. guerrillas last April, the Ojo por Ojo has been credited with a dismaying number of murders, mostly of leftists or even moderates...
...traditionalists were too stunned to do anything but sit silently for ten or fifteen seconds. Then, with a scream of "Kill the commies!" irate conservatives rushed the anarchist dissenter. They were blocked by a group of libertarians, and pushing and swinging broke out. The convention dissolved in an uproar, and the libertarian traditionalist split in YAF became irreparable...
...that a carousing father might lose all track of a child and who, coming home, says to the mother, "I lost the child-completely lost him. God knows who's got hold of him." After giving an animal cry, Madden opens his mouth again in a terrible soundless scream and sags lifelessly, like a crucified soul. That is an epiphany. For in one blinding instant, we see the great play that for the rest of the evening is not seen onstage...
...there alone, in the midst of unaccountable pain he finally understands that he is a part of Consciousness III. Committed to that category, he accepts the invitation of some old school friends and moves to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont-where Innis ends the novel with a primal scream, at once cathartic and empty...
...many the book may touch too close to home. Living in our tiny rooms, by turns smoking dope, listening to Dylan, and sleeping, it's all too easy to understand Randy's maze of confusion. Caught swirling in a world out of control, Randy's last scream echoes our own pointless protests. We may have had enough of this replay of our own lives, especially now when we have a sense of the beginning and the end of what was once full of buoyant hope. I just don't know anymore. You have to think in the end tha this...