Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...
...Instead of honor and recognition, his Fleurs du Mal brought him ignominy, and a court order suppressing six of the poems as obscene. Five years later came the crisis in his long descent towards damnation; on Jan. 23, 1862, he wrote, "I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror . . . and today I have received a singular warning. I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." Baudelaire was dying slowly of syphilis...
...Mere rumor, which runs at its wildest under such circumstances, is enough to dethrone reason; great terror, in a brave man or a cringer, can turn loose adrenal energies which must exhaust themselves in outrage and spoliation. It would be untrue to describe as a form of religious madness, even in religious India, a madness which operates also with equal fury among godless men. But where deep religiousness is present it is inevitably used, inevitably adds its own peculiar intensity...
...more likely, in my opinion, being used for internal purposes. If there are only 14 men all eyeing one another, deeply conscious of the enormous population they hold in chains of mind and spirit, enforced by terror, it may well be that they think it pays them and helps them to perpetuate their rule by representing to the otherwise blindfolded masses of the brave and goodhearted Russian people that the Soviet Government stands between them and a repetition of the horrors of invasion which they withstood, when it came, so manfully...
...Never before was black terror so openly insolent in the U.S. Everything honest and brave is exiled or put in prison. The haberdasher from Jackson vies for the laurels of the little corporal from Munich. . . . Who is this new apostle of imperialism? ... A man who loves bow ties, wears his pants two inches shorter than ordinary, and . . . has no other external marks of distinction. . . ." (After a visit to the U.S. last year, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg had waxed sarcastic over the mysterious interest the U.S. press has in personalities and personal likes: "A reporter [wrote about] the burning problem...