Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, America's popularization of psychology is doing much to destroy the mystique that used to surround the psychiatrist. So is humor, from the countless stand-up-comics' jokes ("A psychoanalyst is a Jewish doctor who hates the sight of blood"), to the literary satires that are themselves becoming stock (Lillian Ross's Vertical and Horizontal). The mind doctor is looking more and more like any other pro with a job to do-a job not free from the pressure of automation. M.I.T. once programmed a computer to talk via typewriter like a psychiatrist. Excerpts from...
...needs, U.S. forces inevitably distort and disrupt local economies. Necessary as the U.S. military presence is in Asia now, few Asian leaders are very happy about it-or want it to continue indefinitely in the future. Their sentiments spring from pride and from fears that massive American garrisons will destroy traditional cultural values and unduly shape local political decisions. "There is a feeling among Asians," says Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, "that they should be running their own affairs without being led and pushed by us. They want to be sure they are deciding their own fate...
Bobby denies that he is laying plans six years in advance. "If I tried to, I'd destroy myself as a Senator," he says. "I'd be a basket case in three months." Besides, a strong streak of fatalism runs through him. "There's no use figuring out where you're going to be later on; you may not be there at all. So the sensible thing is to do the very best you can all the time." Still, he has a 20/20 eye on 1972. When a Georgia Democrat asked him which of six gubernatorial...
...Communist use of the tactic of terror, which Mallin rightly defines as violence inflicted by armed men on helpless civilians. Whether it be mining of roads, machine-gunning of buses, kidnaping villagers, burning homes, or torture and murder, the Viet Cong employ "brutality with a purpose": to destroy the morale of the Vietnamese citizenry and discredit the Saigon government. Any opportunity will do. When typhoon rains caused massive flooding in the fall of 1964, the Viet Cong fired repeatedly at evacuation helicopters carrying civilians...
They dragged a Moslem leader from a mosque in Peking and beat him, invaded a lamasery and carried off statues of Buddha. In the seaside resort city of Hangchow, Red Guards invaded Ling Ying Temple and covered a statue of Buddha with pasted-on slogans that read DESTROY THE OLD WORLD! BUILD THE NEW WORLD...