Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right of the common man. In the 19th century, Lynd says, the doctrine was assimilated into the American main stream: "Property was no longer the ark of the covenant. It was recognized to be not a natural right but a social convention...
...Boston Globe's stream-of-consciousness writer roamed around the hall without a notebook...
...asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds. He and April Fool had to finish the last 25 miles lashed to the side of a Coast Guard cutter-still setting a record for the smallest craft to sail the Atlantic, but leaving the bearded airman-turned-seaman "a little disappointed...
...there with a stain on the uniform and maybe a twitch or two. They writhe and roll, gurgling and spouting the red stuff in enough quantities to make even a paratrooper throw up-which John does with emetic realism. There is also a double helping of portentous stream of consciousness on the sound track, plus some heavy-handed message mongering that is both otiose and silly. "Just you and me," observes one of the characters, lying near death in an inferno of exploding mortars and chattering machine guns. "Skill to live," the other says. "Skill to exist," the first corrects...
Nonfiction publishing is rising at a bewildering rate; an average of 351 new nonfiction titles stream off the presses every week, but most of them never get reviewed. Here is a random sampling of titles, issued in the past year or so by reputable publishers, that may have escaped public attention...