Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation is learning, as Alice did when she went through the looking glass, that there is little sense at all in the mad dashes of a hyperactive culture. Advertising agencies, the first to become aware of changing sensibilities and the first to exploit them, have perceived in Americans the desire to get back to a slower, simpler nature and they have been peddling their products along those lines. Clearly, advertisers aren't going to help anybody get anything except a new breakfast food in the pantry, but it is equally clear that the desire to get out of the race...
...Drury. The U-2 incident and Khrushchev banging his shoe. First moves into Viet Nam. Civil rights in the South. In the 1962 sequel to Advise and Consent, Drury tried to keep up. He escalated his story into a counterinsurgency war in Central Africa, coupled with radical attempts to exploit racial strife in the U.S. He also moved his senatorial heroes into the still windier forum of the United Nations. But these days no writer should play "Can You Top This?" with history...
What makes Fairy Tale a successful book is Donleavy's ability to subtly exploit the cruelty and humor contained in the gap between Christian's appearance and reality. Set in New York, the style that gives the fairy tale hero instant acceptance is the same one that turns Christian into a man who is both exploiter and exploited. It is his style which wins him jobs and pushes him into brawls and disastrous affairs...
Lozana appealed to the local union members in the crowd: "Don't you let any of these New England manufacturers leave here so that they can come to the Southwest and expect to exploit us in runaway shops...
...been my teacher when I was a senior. I remember that I spoke to him that afternoon about the sense of vested interest Harvard people inevitably feel in the denial or non-recognition of those very disproportions and unequal opportunities for economic self-promotion which they presently exploit and enjoy...