Word: counterattack
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...white counterattack in California reflects one natural consequence of the Negro's militant position: a backlash reaction, derived from the notion that "the Negro is pushing too far, too fast," and that he is also threatening the unskilled white man's job security. James P. Mitchell, Eisenhower's onetime Labor Secretary, now San Francisco's human-relations coordinator and a friend of the Negro feels that "militancy could quite easily antagonize important people who are now prepared or preparing to do something. What Negroes have to remember is something they tend to forget: that they...
...general intellectual counterattack to all this was summed up in a letter to the daily Aftonbladet. "Is a film immoral," asked the writer, "just because it shows immoral people?" The point remains moot in smoldering Stockholm. Bergman himself has had no disturbing second thoughts. Silence is the third segment of a trilogy about God, according to Ingmar. The first two parts were Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Silence is intended to depict the cold horror of human existence when God averts his face and there is no light...
Ugly American. All over the South, officials impatient with the power of familiar statutes passed in the interests of public safety-laws against disorderly conduct, impeding traffic, loitering, and the like-have resurrected an odd armory full of rusty legal weaponry with which to mount a counterattack against the insistent forces of integration. Examples...
...book in the gathering German moral counterattack is The Bombing of Germany (Das war der Bombenkrieg) by Hans Rumpf, a war-time civil defense director. Rumpf does not deny that the ultimate blame for the war lies with the Germans themselves, but he shifts much of the blame for the excessive suffering and duration of the war onto the Americans and British. He accuses the British, and to a lesser extent, the Americans, of adhering to an air strategy that needlessly destroyed German cities and art treasures and killed nearly 600,000 civilians. Far from helping the Allied cause, such...
...Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...