Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relentless but gripping tragedy of man's inhumanity to man. The scene is New Hope Valley, Tenn.; the time, today. An evangelist arrives in town with the intention of saving a passel of souls. Town elders go into the woods to find a suitable baptismal stream, are suddenly thunderstruck to see Susannah bathing in the altogether. This vision is enough to convince them that the girl is possessed of the devil, and that it is everybody's duty to cleanse...
...fields, stream beds, limestone pits and lake bottoms of Mexico, Guatemala and British Honduras, archaeologists continue to reap a rich harvest of the New World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...
...months, soft-spoken Record-Spinner Shepherd fired off occasional jazz salvos 4½ hours a night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
...extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each other and to any apparent overall objective. Then, too, there is the jarring alternation between the telegraphic stream of consciousness, a difficult and seldom effective device, and aphoristic reverie and introspection, much of which is more intriguing than comprehensible...
...Western observers, who feared to see Indonesia's Sukarno sucked into the Soviet propaganda stream, it was a somewhat reassuring suggestion that, though a brother, he was not a comrade...