Word: thought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Denial has long been my preferred route for dealing with my shattered illusions. When I first unpacked Blankie and put him on my pillow, my roommates thought they were living with a diseased human being. "What is it?" they asked. "A shower mat? A huge used hankerchief?" I told them it was my pride...
...junior John E. Churchville, who said on Sunday that he thought the posters and graffiti were the work of a single student and not the Klan, said yesterday that the string of phone calls had made him less sure...
...protein, the company was able to develop a test to detect its presence in blood. Chiron called the pathogen the "hepatitis-C virus." In clinical studies done at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and laboratories in Italy and Japan, blood samples from patients thought to have non-A, non-B hepatitis were screened using Chiron's test. At least 80% of the samples tested positive for the hepatitis-C virus...
Five days later, in a theater across town, a dozen masked youths with shaved heads invaded a concert of revolution-era songs. Crying "Long live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part of the spectacle," said Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the government's Bicentennial Mission. It wasn't. The singer was hospitalized, and President Mitterrand led the list of notables expressing outrage...
...that celebrated the French Revolution and its class struggles as the mother of the Bolshevik Revolution. Regicide was the only way to crush the power of the privileged, and the Terror, like Stalin's purges, was a necessary transition to an eventual dictatorship of the proletariat. Many French have thought of themselves as different from other Europeans because they broke so violently with their past and started fresh...