Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blaze of bombs, the flash of blades, the eerie glow of fire, the keening cries of hatred, the wild dance of terror in the night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath street lamps, talking softly or not at all. They knew their place: they were "niggers"' in a Jim Crow town, and they bore their degradation in silence. But last week they smashed that image forever. The scenes in Birmingham were unforgettable. There was the Negro youth, sprawled on his back...
...mother cried out to him in the dream-but did she mean the king or did she mean Jesus? From that night on, the dreamer could never find comfort in Jesus' name. The sound of it flooded him with his frightful revelation: the phallic king of underground terror and the good Lord Jesus were both, somehow, the same...
...apocalyptic vision of a thermonuclear war that would annihilate mankind has, in fact, slowly receded, giving way to the idea, voiced by Winston Churchill back in 1950, that the frightfulness of nuclear weapons makes total war improbable. Peace "through mutual terror." Churchill called it. A corollary of this concept is that in a nuclear stalemate the threat of nuclear retaliation ceases to be an effective deterrent to small-scale aggression with conventional weapons. In other words, nuclear stalemate can deter big wars but not little wars. To lessen the U.S.'s reliance on what the late John Foster Dulles...
...writer might have been tempted to skulk past the cliches of early marriage. Hortense Calisher attacks head on, overruns each situation with the rush of her own peculiar eloquence. A reader can cheerfully follow David and Liz through the awe of contemplating the baby's hand, the terror of watching its first illness, the slowly emerging awareness of what shape their marriage may finally assume. And in the interplay between the generations lies a lingering dynastic question: How much do we inherit from the past; how much can we disown...
Living in terror to die in torment-Man's fate and theirs-and the island rocks and immense ocean beyond, and Lobos Darkening above the bay: they...