Word: descent
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Before we chalk this difference up to the nobler impulses of journalists past, let's acknowledge some history. Broadcast journalism came of age on radio in the late 1930s, when a generation of brilliant radio correspondents chronicled the world's descent into war--news as significant as it was compelling. When the new medium of television came into our living rooms, the news was driven by similar stories: the Korean War, McCarthyism, Vietnam, Watergate. All were stories of the most traditional sort, yet all possessed great drama...
...play's action traces the descent into madness and furtive attempts at self defense of the title character, a soldier with an unfaithful wife and illegitimate child. Woyzeck is beaten up, experimented on and tortured until he snaps back, turning on the one thing he loves, his wife. His progression of distrust and anger leads him not only to doubt, but also to succumb slowly and miserably under a tide of filth and oppression...
Although the magazine focuses on Korean-American issues, among its contributors are international students as well as undergraduates who are not of Korean descent...
...feel that students and alumni of African descent have specific issues and needs that are not fully addressed in any other forum," Anderson said...
...protecting some children from disorienting noises and lights, providing others with attention-grabbing stimulation. But when parents and therapists collaborate in an intensive effort to reach these abnormal brains, writes Greenspan in a new book, The Growth of the Mind (Addison-Wesley, 1997), three-year-olds who begin the descent into the autistic's limited universe can sometimes be snatched back...