Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation, defamation-in any number of ways to obfuscate and confuse and by so doing to engender and inflame feelings of hate and anger...
...realize immediately that you have no idea, and that the question is a stupid one. It is impossibly confusing, potentially a life's work trying to sort out that one little piece of ground, and short of that, it is enough to just sit and watch it flow...
...recent successes are the result of the Nixon Administration's diligent effort to enlist other countries in the American battle against drugs. Although tightened search procedures at U.S. airports and border crossings have managed to discourage some of the would-be smugglers, Washington hopes to choke off the flow at the source. Other governments, especially those in Europe, have become more cooperative since the use of hard drugs has begun spreading among their own young people...
...principal source of the renewed money flow, most economists suspect, is the Federal Reserve, which is now practicing a more expansionary policy than Chairman Arthur Burns has been talking. In the first half of 1970, the board increased the nation's money supply (including time deposits) at an annual rate of 5%; Burns later declared publicly that this was "about right." In the last two months though, the annual rate of increase has averaged more than 16%. Considering its fears of renewed inflation, the board is unlikely to go on pumping out money for long at quite that pace...
...education, argues UCRA President Sidney Hook, professor of philosophy at New York University. "Intellectual unrest is not a problem but a virtue," he says, "and no university can have too much of it. The problem, and the threat, is not academic unrest but academic disruption and violence, which flow from substituting for the academic goals of learning the political goals of action. The university," he adds, "is not responsible for the existence of war, poverty and other evils...