Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catastrophe pervades Percy's psychology. It takes an apocalyptic force to shake Lancelot out of a seven-year stupor in which his only pleasure in life was Raymond Chandler novels, and into a reevaluation of his quality of life (which moves him to such drastic action). Percy's characters often are alienated and then transformed by an experience which gives them a new perspective. He likes to describe this new ability to see the whole from a distance as a Martian perspective. Yet only after such an experience are Percy's characters capable of love, a principle solidified...
...back made it. Seated in row 34, Mrs. Floy Heck of Leisure World sat in a stupor until her husband Paul ordered: "Floy, get up!" He led her to the wing. She jumped, injuring her legs, and could not walk. "I kept praying and asked Jesus to help me, and I kept crawling away." She did not see her husband again until they were reunited in a U.S. hospital...
...have to hurry recovering from your St. Patrick's Day stupor if you want to see any sports this weekend because there is not much to see. The two main places for spectators to be this weekend are the Boston Garden and in front of the tube...
...mathematically brilliant but misguided sloth spent the junior year at Harvard in a continual stupor, under the influence of illegal substances and domestic beers. Ostensibly an Applied Math concentrator (though he never studied math nor concentrated), the sloth passed each day expounding on his life philosophy to curious passersby or the walls, as he watched his favorite T.V. game shows. So frazzled was his mind in fact, that he wrote the course numbers backwards on his study card, thus unwittingly enrolling in Adolescent Psychology and U.S. Fiscal Policy instead of his intended courses in advanced physics. But because...
...already etched itself into history. The inner reality, it now appears, was very different. The conspirator who turned against his fellow criminals trembled at times at the thought of his lonely assault upon Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman. He climbed into his Scotch bottle in search of soothing stupor often enough to worry about becoming an alcoholic. He fretted over looking "too mousy" on television. Just before the hearings, he even considered fleeing the country...