Word: howling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passages of aching poignancy: "The lowest, the most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile; will plant a seed and watch it grow; will stand to watch the life of the clouds. Or lie pleasurably awake in the dark, hearing wind howl that cannot - not this time - harm him where he lies safe. This is where strength has always welled, irrepressibly, into every creature of Shikasta...
Later that night, while you lie wrapped in sleeping bags, the state police drive trucks past the campsite again and again. In the backs of the trucks there are dogs, and the dogs howl and howl, and then you know for sure that this really is serious business, and it's hard to sleep...
...ENTER TO HOWL. That night, he approached me with all the zeal and impulse of a new American spirit. Little Joe was naked and bold, still dressed in the irreverent street rags of adolescence; he shed Harvard's illusions of grandeur and specialty with every step. The world of people and events wafted about his presence far-removed and unimportant. HE was the moment, ignorant and unconcerned with the vague promises of the future of the past...
...running away toward Venice, where the lovers intend to bind themselves together for eternity by kissing in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs. This agreeable silliness works because the script by Allan Burns is sharp and funny, the two young actors are fresh and effective, Olivier is a howl, and Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) has a fine comic touch...
...SUPPLANT RELIGION, & THE ENTIRE APPARATUS/ DEVELOP THE WAY TO PARADISE. The dark powers are given the responsibility of setting up a research laboratory to clone worthy souls. Mirabell, the name Merrill gives his chief informant, explains: A MERE 2 MILLION CLONED SOULS LISTEN TO EACH OTHER WHILE/ OUTSIDE THEY HOWL & PRANCE SO RECENTLY OUT OF THE TREES. What has alarmed Heaven and agitated Mirabell to speak is a recent cloud on the human horizon: A CONCERTED USE OF ATOMIC/ WEAPONRY NOW FALLING INTO HANDS OF ANIMALS SOULS...