Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 18--Harvard's inconsistent, often bumbling football team staggered through three miserable periods here today before regrouping for a two touchdown passing assault in the fourth quarter to out-tussle stubborn Brown...
First, he talked to American troops-Marines at Danang, flyers back from the air war up North, sailors on river assault boats-urging them not to be dismayed by the dissent at home. Second, he talked through newsmen to the American public, pointing up the progress in the war and calling for patience. Third, he talked to South Viet Nam's newly installed leaders, demanding a more vigorous effort in both prosecuting the war and broadening the base of Saigon's government...
...free speech and press. Even in the most strained times, few intelligent Americans have attacked dissent as disloyalty. Given the U.S. proposition, no shade of opinion is unpatriotic-unless it advocates violence or overthrow of the Government. Unhappily, a few extreme dissenters tend toward that direction: that some assault the impregnable Pentagon is evidence of a sadly impotent search for meaning, of disbelief in the U.S. political process, of something gone wrong in the U.S. pursuit of happiness-or, perhaps, of the Administration's inability to give large segments of American youth a meaningful vision...
...Wilson went on record only a year ago as seeing no need for a reform of the Lords, and he was purposely vague last week about precise intentions for reform. He almost certainly will try to cut the Lords' delaying powers to a mere six months. He could assault the hereditary principle by a variety of means, including drastic instant denial of a seat to all hereditary peers. The House of Lords itself would remain, but might be limited in makeup to some 300 peers. Indicating that he meant business, Wilson at week's end appointed an interparty...
Apart from what he is saying, only this glitter and his expressive use of his hands give him away for being a poet. His exterior seems particularly unexotic if one has come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...