Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamsun remembered the abject misery that he found in a lawful, ordered society. His writing gave it voice, and Oscarsson gives it substance-articulating the agonies of all the poor, as when he gags on a bone that he has begged. "Damnation," he cries, "is there nothing one may keep for oneself...
...publication. At 83, Prouvost pleaded with his staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly to go ahead. The publisher retaliated by dismissing Executive Editor Roger Therond and Managing Editor Lacaze. Again the staff rebelled and voted to reinstate the editors. Prouvost backed down-for the moment. Abject Failure. But he soon proceeded to outflank his staff. Without ostensibly firing the reinstated editors, he installed a new triumvirate over them...
Invincible on Battlefields. Nor is he by any means a loser. His doughty employment of American heart and muscle dragged South Viet Nam back from abject defeat in early 1965. Fighting all the while, his men hacked from virgin jungle and sand dunes the airfields and bases needed to sustain the conflict at the far end of a 10,000-mile supply line. For two years, Westmoreland's search-and-destroy tactics battered his enemy to a counterpunching crouch along Viet Nam's borders. He built up American strength from some...
...poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores. With the disarming candor and detachment of one who is stepping down from power-and is glad of it-Arosemena tells it like it is. "Infant...
...black power today. The Journal, to its credit, has beaten Encounter to the news stands with Kilson's views on the subject. Kilson calls black power a "confidence trick" played at the expense of the Negro lower classes. He claims it "seeks a leverage on power in face of abject powerlessness." But Kilson's article is not a mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners, small money-lenders, pool room owners--might be the best place to look for leadership. The article is more...