Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the last decade the United States has waged a brutal and pointless war against the land and people of Vietnam, killing hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans and supporting a series of repressive military governments. Now, it appears, the nightmare is beginning again in Laos and Thailand. The killing in Southeast Asia must be stopped...
...genius, a daily spectacle of panoramic American social and political epiphanies, so that watching it is in part an act of self-congratulation. There is information given out in abundance. Yet consciousness of wrongs serves for moral conscience, and all social problems are expected to yield to a sufficiently brutal amount of revelation and analysis. There is a "special" for everything: possible life on the asteroids, the extinction of the sun, test-tube giraffes, housing, Eskimoes, hari-kari, cabbages, cornea transplants, insurance, ghettoes, suburbs, and Agnew. TV enervates us by its never-ending, relentless "exposure" of evils. Its documentaries...
...series of jolting disillusionments about the responsiveness of America to profound social change and unpleasant discoveries about the nature of polities itself. It has taken several years for the sheltered malcontents of the Port Huron days to realize that, underneath it all, politics is a very brutal thing...
Asahi Shimbun Correspondent lyeshige Akioka visited Tung Chi University in Shanghai this month, he discovered that there would be graduating classes this year and next-but none after that. No one seemed to know when enrollment would resume. Factional clashes became brutal; at one point in the struggle, corpses floated down the Pearl River from Canton and washed ashore in Hong Kong. Mao finally backed down and called in the army to restore control...
Besides its brutal attack on institutions, which was a keynote of the revolt in May '68, the situationnists represented the new spirit and new kind of student entering student polities. Joy and laughter became necessary accompaniments of revolutionary action. "The proletarian revolutions will be celebrations or will not be." declared the situationnists. The new radicals were agitators more spontaneous and less ideological than the propagandists in the groupescules...