Word: stink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hayakawa, who is the third new president in 27 months, will need a profound understanding of behavior in particular if he is to deal effectively with the convulsed San Francisco campus. Students have been beaten, buildings occupied, fires started, and stink bombs thrown; plainclothes and uniformed police were everywhere. Even the faculty seemed hopelessly divided...
...Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond any man's capacity to absorb without the saving intercession...
...suspend Murray. Earlier, Smith had refused a similar request from the trustees, but now he had no choice. Black militants responded by calling a student strike that quickly spawned hit-and-run raids on campus buildings. Labs were ransacked and equipment ruined. Minor fires were set and a stink bomb was thrown into a library reading room...
...case, starting as a happily married, witty college professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets...
...numbly but stubbornly seeks an honorable-a human-way to survive the "endless round that shrinks a man to something less than the size and the meaning of flying ants." Relentlessly staging a Job-like trial-by-humiliation, Armah daubs "the man" with spit, phlegm and sweat. Rot and stink-the look and smell of corruption-rise up from every page. It is a classmate, Koomson, who perfumes all the putrefaction with the sweet smell of his success as a self-serving official of the new regime...