Word: besetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BATTERED by the recession and beset by zealous Government reformers, wavering clients and hostile consumer groups, the advertising business is undergoing a painful and probably permanent transformation. The old frothy ebullience has been replaced by a somber sense of reality and not a little anxiety. Says Richard Christian, president of the Marsteller advertising agency: "The whole business is a vast confusion...
Through two Parliaments, ten governments and five Premiers, Italy during the past decade has been ruled by an unstable but basically unchanging center-left coalition. Beset by continual infighting, the coalition has fallen apart on an average of once a year; Italy's politicians have had to drop everything and devote their entire attention to putting the alliance together again...
...says that he envisions "a journal of international scope, concerned with the life of the mind, the principal problems of our time: war and peace, environment, the squandering of human resources." He wants Review to "be concerned with our biggest challenge-the need for planetary planning. We are beset by world problems, but we have no world philosophy for dealing with them...
Finally, Sheed is also a novelist, privy to the nuances of atmosphere and feeling that only he can touch. His most famous (and respected) novel, Max Jamison tells of the gradual decline of an honest critic. Jamison continually embodies the critical faculty as an active presence, beset by New York critical politics and mass taste. He has no great philosophic commitment--which may be why, in Sheed's world, he is only a critic, and Sheed only a minor novelist. He does have a steadfast curiosity, a determined belief in the sublime and the perfect...
Many of the problems that have beset black studies departments might have been avoided, he said, if black intellectuals had not felt that by supporting black studies they would have been risking their professional standing within the white dominated academic establishment...