Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...times, "Ms." smacks of slickness. One gets the obvious message that this is the production of professionals, but the too-clever drawings can be cloying. Though advertisements for vaginal deodorants are conspicuously absent (the latest "Consumer Reports" declared that they are irritants), the ads are not completely consistent with a "liberated" ideology. One page asks: "Could a woman become a Merrill Lynch Account Executive?... How financially motivated are you?" Other ads play on the wish for prestige, or the need to be desirable...
...Vandervane, 54, violinist, composer and conductor, is a familiar Amis character, a clowning nihilist with a middle finger ever at the ready. "Rage at absent, or largely imaginary foes," writes Amis, "was part of his life style...
Alas, too true. But these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
Psychologist Cantor observes that the married teen-age girl is more apt to commit suicide than the unmarried girl, and the college student than those not in college. Her study suggests that two groups are especially likely to attempt suicide: those whose fathers have been either uncaring or long absent from home, and first-born girls, particularly those with younger brothers...