Word: hauntedness
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You might assume that Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man...
The primordial fear that haunted us through the first days and weeks after 9/11 has dissipated. Not because the threat has disappeared but for the simple reason that in our ordinary lives we simply cannot sustain that level of anxiety. The threat is as real as it was on Sept...
As a new resident of the Quad, Dartboard has found no shortage of uncomfortable and terrifying ways of traveling between his palatial single and the rest of campus. For example, there’s the horribly crowded 9:50 am shuttle, the 9:51 walk through the rain, or the...
DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a handcuffed Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in New York City. As a...
Lemkin, a haunted refugee and relentless lobbyist, managed to construct a lasting norm, as Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary granted his coinage lexicographic admission. In 1948 he went door to door at the new United Nations and persuaded representatives to endorse the Genocide Convention, the U.N.'s first...