Word: disruptionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Referring to the postwar disruption of Anglo-American exchange of atomic data, Conant said, "Troubles, misunderstandings and bad feelings on both sides might have been avoided by greater frankness at the outset.
"Radio and gambling, cocktails and promiscuous fornication, soporifics and aphrodisiacs, television and motor trips and sports, preferably sports that threaten loss of limb, are all the fillers-in of deficient forms of life: witnesses to the disruption of the family, the renunciation of parenthood, the retreat from citizenship, the failure...
It is doubtful that such gains can be repeated this year, because of the disruption of switching to defense production. But after the still newer plants now being built go into operation, man-hour output should go up faster than ever.
Mossadeq, an honest man at the head of a largely incompetent and corrupt government, obviously could not run the oilfields, wanted British technicians to stay on and do the job for him. Having expropriated the British, the Iranians now childishly blamed the British for not assisting at their own expropriation...
Whereas "The Seventh Veil" treats the introduction of conflict into an abnormal situation, Noel Coward's "Brief Encounter" is a story of the disruption of a middle-class housewife's prosaic routine when she meets an equally prosaic doctor while on her weekly shopping trip. Here the flashbacks are less...