Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Hangovers. Like any great human issue, it offers no easy answers. Factors beyond man's personal control (the population explosion, the high cost of privacy, his wife's energetic counter-effort to become the community's most beloved hostess ) have gradually propelled him into closer and closer contact with an ever-expanding collection of neighbors, relatives, club members, office workers, lodge brothers, poker players, business clients, and fellow commuters...
...pace of the effort that for once the reality has outraced the rhetoric. The services have not even agreed on what to call this kind of fighting. To the Army, it is "special warfare," and its guerrilla experts are tabbed "Special Forces"; the Air Force calls it "COIN" (for counter-insurgency), and has its "Air Commandos"; the Navy terms it "unconventional warfare," is training its "SEALS" for sea. air and land capability. The Marines are inclined to scoff-in public. Says Assistant Marine Commandant Lieut. General John C. Munn: "Some 35 years ago. when I entered the Marine Corps...
...Negroes' goals are not in reach of court decisions any longer." It Could Happen Anywhere. Birmingham therefore set off a chain reaction-uncontrolled. New lunch-counter sit-ins started in Atlanta, Nashville and Raleigh. The N.A.A.C.P. called for peaceful sympathy demonstrations in 100 cities. Jackie Robinson, now a vice president of Chock Full O' Nuts, said he would go to Birmingham to join in the Negro protest. So did Floyd Patterson. Communism was having a field day. Gloated Radio Moscow: "We have the impression that American authorities both cannot and do not wish to stop outrages by racists...
Staying at Home. It is just possible that Castro bought a shirt and tie at the men's wear counter, for next day he suddenly emerged all dressed up for the official May Day march-past through Red Square. He even sported a blue beret, which seemed increasingly confining as, for five solid hours, under a warm spring sun, he stood at Khrushchev's side on the rampart over Lenin's tomb. It went on and on; 250,000 athletes, workers and schoolchildren paraded by. Only during the ten-minute parade of familiar military hardware, featuring medium...
...back from the darkening spirit of his science. He studied ancient cultures and tribes, myths and symbols and alchemy, and from the overpowering sense of nostalgic recognition his studies brought him, he fashioned a new psychology that served him as a shield against Freud's disturbing ideas. To counter Freud's concept of man as an imperiled witness to the struggle between the sexuality and aggression within him, Jung produced a theory of the unconscious that showed each man to be a cultural museum filled with ancient wisdoms, beauty and God. "He has," says J. B. Priestley...