Word: engulfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophet Marshall McLuhan has just invaded what he calls the "hot" medium of printed journalism. As he sees it, people are so absorbed with old-fashioned words that they don't even notice the tidal wave of change about to engulf them. To help them "survive," he says, he is putting out a monthly newsletter called The McLuhan Dew-Line. It is intended to "raise a mighty scream" to warn readers of the imminent electronics takeover...
...repertoire, writes in a monotone that is no more varied than his fixed point of view. Cleverness ("She breathed on him (though a young lady should not eat, because of the known redolence of onions, onions) onions."), hyperbole ("his insides, like spoilt cats demanding milk as lava begins to engulf the town and the cats with it, complained and switched on a kind of small avant garde chamber piece for muted brass") and poetry ("Out in the gull-clawed air, New Year blue, the tide crawling creamily in, Enderby felt better.") become a tedious camouflage instead of a clear glass...
...country. Everywhere there seemed to be larger numbers than usual of plainclothes policemen and other shadowy characters. The country's severest purge since the bloodless revolution of 1956, which had started off a few weeks earlier by concentrating on the Jews in government and universities, suddenly spread to engulf people in other walks of Polish life...
...restore order to Poland. What he said was sur prisingly mild but, partially for that reason, it failed to mollify the rebellious students. As they began a third week of defiance of the regime, the students constituted a smoldering fire that could break out at any time and engulf Poland's Communist regime...
...stance in Viet Nam, chimed in with a plea that "something should be done about a change in the conduct of the war." Idaho Democrat Frank Church, a longtime critic, warned that the Administration seemed to be "poised to plunge still deeper into Asia where huge populations wait to engulf us, and legions of young Americans are being beckoned to their graves." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was no less concerned. "We are facing today the most troublous days in the entire history of the Republic, and I bar no period in making that statement," he said...