Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case grows larger and the tale becomes stranger and more ominous with each passing day. And lost in the Watergate shuffle is the central issue in the Pentagon Papers trial: are Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo innocent or guilty...
...heart--precious time when the organ is being rushed to a specialized operating room and a suitable patient. Organ banks will only make the shortage of donors more dramatic, and hospital wards will continue to be filled by cardiac patients hoping for the extraordinarily good luck of a healthy stranger running into extraordinarily bad luck nearby...
Part of the time The Stranger is Dirty Harry in cowboy boots, a good cop trying to do his duty in a world ungrateful for his sadistic efforts. Part of the time he is Christ reincarnated; in another life (a recurring dream informs us), he suffered a version of Calvary inflicted on him by this very town. Since the citizenry so painfully rejected his previous efforts at salvation, it develops that this second attempt is actually a form of punishment for their earlier transgressions. Heavy stuff, and never more ludicrously so than when he forces them to literally paint their...
...miniature solar system in which negatively charged electrons blithely circle the positive nucleus, they found that the "electrons kept jumping from one orbit into a different orbit without passing through intervening space - as if the earth were suddenly transferred into the orbit of Mars without having to travel." Even stranger notions were still to come, he says, when physicists succeeded in producing such ghostlike particles as the neutrino (which has no mass, no electrical charge, and can hurtle with ease through the entire earth). In view of all this, argues Koestler, there should well be room in the "common sense...
...American eccentric is no stranger to the U.S. stage. One thinks of such plays as The Time of Your Life, You Can't Take It with You and Harvey. The characters in those plays are part rebel and part kook, social dropouts, sort of sacred nuts. The tradition deepens in the works of playwrights like William Inge and Tennessee Williams. Their characters are not so much oddballs as odd souls who suffer psychic and sexual wounds. This is the world of the alienated self, the mutilated heart, the existential transient, moving a playgoer more nearly to tears than...