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...Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then it was not his mind that resisted, not arguments formulated in his brain...
...campus relatively at peace With itself means that it cannot justify its organizational existence. Last we stir up conflict for publicity's sake. Crimson headlines bleat: "HMS Saves Yard from Riots It Started." I say to Dean Epps, "Let's diversify our interests...
Winona Ryder's unpredictable acting is at its worst in "the House of the Spirit." Love scenes between Pedro and Blanca are meaningless; true passion is completely absent in their relationships. Pedro's attempts at fiery speeches intended to stir the peasant workers into revolt are equally uninspired, and we are left to puzzle over this sudden attempt at a political message...
There must have been 30,000 people in thesquare, pressed against each other in the waningItalian heat, waiting for the music to stir theirmemories...
...things is, he won't let me leave my room. When he hears me stir from my desk, he's at the door before I can ever turn around. "Come on, chef, cook me up something good. I got a lot riding on you." (Just what exactly, this means, I do not know, but I learned in this business it's best not to ask questions.) In fact, he won't let me take calls: when my parents called the other day, he told them, "sorry, Seth can't talk right now. Or anytime soon...and all calls go through...