Word: nihilists
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...small repairs," says the heroine of the opening song, Sunny Came Home: a lost soul returns home, gathers up the kids and sets the place on fire, as the suave, singalong chorus offers the musical equivalent of God's unmeddling sympathy. The narrator in Suicide Alley, a nihilist's jaunty march, shares Sunny's glums: "I wasn't born, I was spat out at a wall...on the corner of First and Insane." In If I Were Brave, Colvin brings the alienation home, to the singer on the stage, "a clown to entertain the happy couples." But these open wounds...
That is where I thought I would spend my life: a cultural Jew, an agnostic, a closet nihilist...
While many presidential candidates have grand visions for molding the Undergraduate Council into a campus force that will bring the administration to its knees, throw wildly successful concerts and distribute thousands of dollars to needy student groups, Hill has a much more nihilist vision...
...that, Dino coasted. He became a Southerner on record, with countrified hits like Everybody Loves Somebody and Houston, and a Westerner onscreen--he loved to sit on a horse and ride to Nogales, or nowhere. Perhaps nowhere was his chosen destination. To Nick Tosches, his biographer, Martin was a nihilist hero. Instead of seeing mankind surrounded by a void, Tosches argued, Dino found the void within himself, and called it home...
...Coetzee's darkly convincing narration, Dostoyevsky hears that his 21- year-old stepson Pavel Isaev, who has fallen in with nihilists in Petersburg, has been murdered, perhaps by the police or by his comrades. The writer travels to Petersburg, finds the rooming house where Pavel had lived and -- guilt-haunted because he did not get along well with this difficult son of his dead first wife -- moodily retraces the young man's last months. He tries to retrieve Pavel's papers from the police and is subjected to repeated, insinuating interrogations. He encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev...