Word: staring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. At times they sprawl all over his room, tormenting him so much he spills his soup and screams in agony. In the afternoon, when he is feeling almost amiable, he tosses some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking the pigeon in the throat; and it promptly keels over. That...
...squeaks, and the children turn to stare at a tiny boy (John Megna) with huge buck teeth...
...which no man can help another to save himself and no man can save himself alone. Indeed, in Sartre's opinion all communication is evil and love is a kind of murder. Since one existent cannot see another as a subject but only as an object, the "stare" of the other interrupts "the secret state" that to the existent is his existence, and this interruption causes a "hemorrhage" of freedom that drains being into nothingness. Ergo: "Hell is other people." Other people, that is to say, are a man's punishment for not living his own life...
Each group of ten Minutemen is controlled from a concrete capsule, mounted on springs, covered by some 60 ft. of earth. At identical consoles sit two officers. They stare at dials and lights that warn of any defects in their birds. If warned, the men merely push a button and a taped voice controlled by a computer tells them precisely what is wrong...
...tears of innocent children (and not a few adults) deprived of daily comics...the grim plight of subway riders forced to stare at each other on the long ride to work...the piercing cry of the hapless fishmonger with no newspaper in which to wrap his wares...such sufferings cannot go unrelieved at this Christmas season...