Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boswell for the Defence is, inevitably, drawn in darker shades than the earlier volumes, but is no less fascinating. The author, as usual, shows himself stark naked, and fully justifies his boast: "I have really a genius for particular history, for biography...
...always be gay." He was reeling slightly. "It's as if you were on a beach on a stark, windly night and there was a fire far in the distance. You run toward the fire, knowing that next year you'll make the cross country team if you go fast enough. But it's always there, and burning in the night." Gene paused for breath...
...Briggs (H) defeated Stark...
...Almost everywhere, when they could speak without witnesses, detainees complained of having been given the electrical or water treatment* during interrogation ... In some camps, the medical member of the mission was able to carry out physical examinations, the results of which were sadly conclusive." With this stark quotation, France's Le Monde, most respected of Paris newspapers, last week confirmed beyond dispute that the French army in Algeria is still using torture...
Paris-Presse told the news in one stark word so closely identified with Albert Camus in life: ABSURD. In Paris small crowds of his admirers gathered around newsstands, not quite knowing what they were waiting for. One by one the celebrated names of French literature poured out their stunned tributes. Author Camus, 46, France's (1957) Nobel prizewinner, had been killed in a speeding sports car. "A stupid death," cried one Academician bitterly, but somehow nothing could have seemed more in keeping with the vision Camus had had of his time...