Word: deepening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that executive prerogative. In the case of the current escalation, the will seems to be lacking to mount a successful challenge to the President. "I sense a kind of public apathy, a feeling of hopelessness about it all," says Senator Frank Church. The bombing, he declares, will "merely deepen the sense of cynicism about our leaders and our Government." Now that most American troops have been removed from Viet Nam, the public has grown more indifferent to the war, even to the saturation bombings. More than ever before, it is the President's war; the public, the Congress, much...
RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.: Despite Nixon's shokkus, Tanaka insists that "the basic stance of our foreign policy is to deepen U.S.-Japanese relations. It goes without saying that this is the most important and vital thing. It's a relationship that has developed over the past quarter-century, and our people have come to take it for granted, like water and air. But there is a necessity for people to reflect on the necessity of air and water...
Seldom since the troubles began have the gunmen been less popular with Ulster Catholics. The soldier's death, moreover, seemed to deepen the split between the I.R.A.'s Marxist-lining Official wing and their rivals, the militant Provisional wing. The Proves publicly demanded that the Officials get out of Londonderry; the Officials responded that the Provisionals were "just an extra battalion of the army...
...shall be the business of life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer...
...also provoke it. That, says Psychiatrist Jack Leedy, president of the Association for Poetry Therapy, is one danger of the method in unskilled hands. Reading somber verses with upbeat endings can help unhappy patients by demonstrating that "others have been depressed and have recovered," but despairing poems may deepen the feelings of hopelessness. Psychiatrist Rothenberg cites another danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists, he says, it has an advantage over the other...