Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mankind's Epitaph. From then on, the opera details the moral and physical collapse of Aniara's 8,000 travelers. The passengers seek to distract themselves, turning first to jitterbugging (led by a party girl named Daisi Doody), later to an atavistic sex cult called "Yurg," involving lascivious dances in a hall of mirrors. The chief engineer dies, and during a gaudy celebration is fired in a coffin to become a sun satellite. After 24 years of space travel, the remaining passengers die, aware too late that in the destruction of his home planet man had lost...
...history. One of them involved a French instructor who used to teach in the University Hall basement classroom in the 1858-9 term. He had a touchy habit of listing his agenda for the day on the blackboard and hiding it with a curtain so as not to distract his young men in class. Then he would whip the curtain back dramatically and pompously at the right time in the recitation period...
Iraq is more important than ten Berlins, but the U.S. continues to study Berlin and act as if Khrushchev's "deadline" is something like a bureaucrat's lunch hour and must be taken seriously. Berlin is the deliberate decoy set up by the Communists to distract the U.S. from Iraq. Wait...
...pilgrimage of life goes on, other temptations crop up to distract and subvert the voyager. The temptations of the desert become, in America, the allurements of society...
...admitting he had contacts with the Nazis. Gilbert hinted that, actually, he had also been working for another British cloak-and-dagger outfit and that the "radio game" was continued even when London knew the Germans were running it, because it was important to "keep the Germans occupied, to distract their attention...