Word: stuporously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphasize their point, the directors use the camera as the eyes of Tono Britko. We view the world through a rum glass as Britko dances in a drunken stupor and we awake with him the next morning to find the camera turned upside down. Soon we become vicarious inhabitants of his village. We walk next to him along the main street as he tips his hat to friends and we cringe with him when a troop of Nazi soldiers passes...
...less inspiring, however, was Faulkner's commencement address to the 1953 graduating class at the Pine Manor Junior College in Wellesley, Mass. The talk is so gauze-wrapped with mystical abstractions about man and his condition that the poor students must have stumbled away from it in a stupor. The essays, too, are recommended only for veterans of the quagmires who may still have their hip boots handy...
Northeastern's lone goal three minutes into the second period sounded the alarm that woke Harvard from its exam break stupor. The Crimson was down only 40 seconds before Jack Garrity, still riding his goal scoring spree, punched in a rebound off a long shot by defenseman Bob Carr...
...members of the varsity track team will shake off exam-period stupor and run in the Boston Athletic Association Games in the Boston Garden Saturday night...
...looks in one mirror, sees the tattoo in another, turns white. Staring back at him is "a flat, stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes." Under their gaze he feels "as transparent as the wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents...