Word: effected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ypres and the Somme carried the Oxford Book of English Verse in their haversacks; such literary brigades in the trenches would find their minds chiming with a line of Keats, or William Dunbar's Timor Mortis Conturbat Me. The Americans in Viet Nam usually packed more kinetic cultural effects. Images given them over the years by movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie Murphy winning his Congressional...
...except their common humanity -their common frailty, their need for each other." Although it may be reading the film too much as allegory, the ending, with the survivors back in their shab by Pennsylvania steel town, sitting around a table and softly singing God Bless Amer ica, has the effect of being an absolution, a subtle exoneration of the American role in Viet Nam. Cimino might have intended the scene more as an exoneration of the men who were called on to fight there than of the policymakers who sent them. But that is not necessarily the psychological effect upon...
...psychological effect on Americans of all this crisscross Realpolitik is to lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently see-behind American policy. The new conflicts in Southeast Asia add an element of retrospective perplexity to analysis of what the U.S. was doing there...
...message is clear: "With inflation, we have in effect been raped by Government. Federal borrowing is the pervert that did it, and inflation is the weapon of coercion." Inflation, he warns, will get totally out of control and lead to an economic smashup. "The juggernaut is headed for the precipice," he declares in his book. When it reaches the brink, he says, the banks will collapse, Social Security will be worthless, the machinery of Government will break down, and the cities will become chaotic...
Nancy D. Krieger '80, said she finds that many women are not aware of Radcliffe's existence or its effect on their lives. She added that she spoke to Susan W. Lewis, associate dean of freshmen, about finding a central place for women but that "no space could be found...