Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with masters like Shakespeare, the pun is lagniappe, a trick to reconcile opposites, a method of giving a long sentence a parole. It was not until 1922 and Ulysses that James Joyce made it a literature unto itself. In Finnegans Wake, words become quintuple exposures; the reader has to search for a glimpse of something recognizable. In A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging...
...water to recede temporarily from shores around the Mediterranean. As the immense volume of water that had converged on Santorini rushed outward again in a giant wave, it smashed harbors and flooded large districts around the Mediterranean basin. The great sea empire of Minoan Crete simply vanished in the wake of Santorini's destruction...
Yale has compiled a 6-10 overall mark, but it has played a much less grueling schedule than the Crimson, posting wins over Brown and Wake Forest early in the season and over the Australian National team, Cornell (twice), Columbia...
...wake of the student strike in Zagreb last November, which led to Tito's subsequent crackdown in Croatia, Yugoslav officials claim that the eleven accused ringleaders of the alleged conspiracy were plotting a full-scale general strike as a prelude to an uprising in support of Croatian independence. Meanwhile, some 400 Communist officials, including Tripalo and Dabčevič-Kučar, have been purged from their posts, and more firings may follow. The trials of the conspirators will probably begin in March...
...wake of the Pentagon papers investigation, and others with political overtones, even such sober observers as Harvard's Vorenberg profess to see present-day grand juries as an equivalent to the congressional committees of the McCarthy '50s. Unless there is reform, such criticisms are likely to grow louder...