Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anthropologists are usually forced to resort to the Arapesh of New Guinea or the Pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. The human impulse to violence cannot be completely denied or suppressed. When that is tried, the result is often an inner violence in man that can burst out all the more fiercely later. At times the U.S. displays a kind of false prudery about violence to the point where, in the words of Psychiatrist Robert Coles, "almost anything related to forcefulness and the tensions between people is called violent." While this attitude (including Dr. Wertham...
...whose wife flaunted her infidelity by coming home with other men. "He heard her laugh on the sofa downstairs, heard her moans of pleasure. Finally, he left her. He met another girl who made him know he was a man. He came to his priest and learned that one burst of semen had bound him to a whore...
...chairman bluntly urged higher taxes without delay. Moreover, he said he would back an increase even larger than 6%, "if warranted," after Congress makes this year's appropriations. Unlike Ackley, who based his argument on bullish expectations of a strongly rising market for durable goods, a burst of spending for factories, and an early end to the economic drag of falling business inventories, Martin accentuated the negative...
Some pavilions strive solely for immediate effect. In the style of the ancient sorcerers, the Kaleidoscope pavilion does it all with mirrors. To the accompaniment of mind-bending, discothquè-loud cacophony, reflections of colors burst and bleed like paint blended in a mixer; flowers open in the sun, firecrackers explode, seagulls turn red against a green sky. A violent visual punhouse, Kaleidoscope is the medium, the message and the massage. It is probably as near as most viewers will get to a psychedelic trip; for most, it will be close enough for discomfort...
...joined the Marines in an amphibious landing in Viet Nam, took pictures that eloquently expressed the human suffering of war. Dayan granted Schutzer's wish; next day he was taking pictures from a half-track personnel carrier when it was hit by an Egyptian antitank shell and burst into flames...