Word: choiceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy will become a service economy-"We will just shine each other's shoes"-and its standards of living will decline. Worse, its freedoms will suffer. Says Murphy: "There's a desire today for more security and for a risk-free society. But that becomes a choiceless society, not a free society...
Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...
After the death of Kennedy and King, the defeat of McCarthy and the nomination of Humphrey. American politics turned sour. Americans were again faced with a more or less "choiceless choice." To be sure, Humphrey and Nixon weren't exactly alike--Humphrey could have been expected to make better supreme court nominations--but their differences were less important than their similarities. George Wallace's support in the polls rose to 20 per cent while blacks stood by understandably indifferent. In the end, Wallace's support shrunk to 13.5 per cent as the American workingman perceived (probably correctly) that Humphrey offered...
...both ways), money, and a campaign based on the theme of the average citizen's powerlessness vis-a-vis Washington. McCarthy also has good funding, high public recognition, and an expressed willingness to challenge the Democratic Party in November if it again presents the American people with a choiceless choice...
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