Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...propaganda of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the conflict in Ulster is often portrayed only as a struggle of a Catholic minority against an oppressive Protestant majority backed by the British government. In reality the struggle is that of a "double minority." It is both the Catholic attempt to secure long-withheld civil rights; in Ulster, and the Protestant desire to insure British identity in the face of the Catholic majority to the south...
...Rosen's new book, Psychobabble, is an attempt to interpret some of the therapeutic trends outside traditional psychoanalysis that he has observed here in the '70s. The book is not a survey and the issues he addresses ("the relationship between language and psychology and the subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly...
...rumor was a concerted and well orchestrated attempt to slander and emaciate my reputation made throughout Somerville and the greater Boston area," the mayor stated in a press release...
...shorter features are also good. Fortnightly News is a section in the front containing reports from around the country, this week reporting on anti-nuclear demonstrations at Seabrook; Cesar Chavez's first major organizing attempt outside the Southwest; native Hawaiians' battles with the Defense Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships...
...urban ghetto, where life is dominated by discrimination and where one can only fight back with wit or violence, means leaving the comprehensible world. Both Pilate and finally Milkman have left the earth: they are off in a world that is inaccessible. Song of Solomon opened with the attempted flight of a lonely insurance salesman, off the roof of No Mercy Hospital; his failure is not a good omen for Milkman's flight. But the attempt, Morrison suggests, is the important thing. Milkman must decide between a deathly isolated respectability, or death through a loving freedom. The choice...