Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...
...These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that it's unreal," she says. "After a while you feel like a missionary in the tropics. If you don't get out, you go native...
...usual in the unreal atmosphere of Viet Nam, war in all its ugly violence was exploding in the nearby countryside as the dreamlike sideshow of intrigue unfolded in Saigon. Near Soctrang, 90 miles south of the capital, a regional patrol stumbled on a regimental headquarters of 1,500 Viet Cong, who were dug into a field and camouflaged. Rangers, backed by air support that sowed the field with some 288,000 bullets, 4,000 20-mm. cannon shells, 1,552 rockets and 37,000 Ibs. of bombs, scattered the Red nest. At least 87 Viet Cong were killed...
...likelihood of having a Black family as one's neighbours, a Black man as one's boss. Unthinkable? No doubt. But then, the history of multiracial communities is essentially the story of the reluctant accepting the unthinkable. The case for integration does not rest on the unreal assumption that everyone will live happily ever after. It rests on the plain fact that there is no practical alternative...
...Colorado College begin with mean, work up toward brutal and savage. The ancient real cool is still admired at tradition-hobbled Harvard, but the University of Florida has gone on to zero cool, and Colorado College's cool denotes square. How bad is that? reflects admiration; to be unreal is to be impressive...