Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dangerous thing about Nixon is that he is serious. He honestly believes that the U.S. retains the capacity to impose his brand of world order. The only thing which Americans might be lacking, and which he is determined to provide, is the will to victory. If the American people refuse to accept further U.S. combat deaths, then another means of victory must be found. American airpower and Vietnamization are two of Nixon's three trump cards. The third-nuclear weapons-he has said he will not hesitate...
...ecology reading list is the Environmental Handbook (95c), a collection of extremely good essays on every conceivable aspect of the crisis. Next, we offer The User's Guide to the Protection of the Environment ($1.25), an encyclopedic investigation of the real consequences of everyday living. It deals comprehensively with brand-name products, nutrition, gardening, soaps, and garbage. Unfortunately it spends only twelve words discussing alternative life-styles as possible solutions to some of our ecological and psychic afflictions. So, important a reference work as it is, no library would be balanced without a Whole Earth Catalog -which is completely uncommitted...
...Peking back to reality was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the fear that the Brezhnev Doctrine - that the Soviet Union has the right to intervene in any socialist state deviating from its brand of Communism - might be applied to China. War hysteria swept the country after border fighting broke out with the Soviets at the Ussuri River and in Sinkiang...
...Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion, with its metonymical distillation of the Power Structure into the isolated (and questionable) stereotype of the "Authoritarian Personality," dismisses practical ways of dealing with that structure politically, and-like Z-it breeds in us a self-righteous self-satisfaction with our own uncommitted brand of anti-Fascism. Our passivity is transformed only to the extent of our exploitation, as we thrill freely to the perverse in all its frozen detail...
...playing a different brand of rugby now," explained Sandomirsky. "Before we left, we knew we had a pretty good defense, by American standards, but now we've picked up an offense that will be able to take the initiative more often. The forwards have also learned the rudiments of reeking and stronger play in the loose...