Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came almost as a relief to learn that the Knesset bombing was not significant of renewed political strife. For one year after the Sinai campaign, Israel had cause for quiet satisfaction. The disapproval of the U.N., Israelis felt, had been lived down. But the swift efficiency of the assault had forced the Arabs to treat Israel's power with grudging new respect. It had reduced immeasurably the power and prestige of Egypt's Nasser...
While most of the jail visits turn up such routine cases as breaking and entering, assault and battery, and larceny, occasionally the student counsel encounters something as dramatic as murder...
Less happily, what is best in all this has been pretty fully conveyed by the end of a brilliant, dynamic first act. Indeed, the first act's very power of assault gives to what follows a diminished impact. But what follows has also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having...
Malott decided this time to remind the student body of its responsibility and called for "immediate and forthright consideration and action." He added that this was "not a condemnation of house parties, ... but an assault on those organizations and individuals who violate the good taste, the good judgement and the rules of good behavior which Cornell University expects of its students...
People from other walks of life joined the milling crowds after the first police assault on students...