Word: frontality
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This final twist-Lynd ends his slim outline at the Civil War-brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...
Even so, a frontal attempt to improve the lot of a large number of unskilled workers by subsidizing their income is bound to anger the middle class unless the legislation seeks, as does the bill proposed by Congressman Laird, to keep the gap between the poor and the middle class large enough to make the middle class feel secure. Most proposals so far do just that. The Poor Peoples' plan tacitly assumes that anyone with an able body should work for his income. So does the Laird Bill, which incorporaties most of Friedman's views on income subsidies...
...women are fondled with equal ardor, though sex is not nearly as important as the inflicting and suffering of physical pain. Indeed, Amis hits an almost pornographic intensity as his Bond gets his eardrums probed with a meat skewer, his septum stimulated by a broom straw, and his frontal lobe pummeled with an incessant and derivative yak about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident on the West. Bond...
...beginning, weathermen talked so much about "occluded fronts" and "thermal inversions" that viewers wondered if they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...
...distorted proportions that it has, when the free condemn the protectors of the freedom they share, enjoy and abuse, and curse the resisters of totalitarian aggression (and it is irrelevant whether the aggressors are North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese or Eskimos, whether their aggression takes the form of a frontal assault, blitzkrieg, treacherous tactics or the barbarous slaughtering of innocents), and dishonor the noble flag under which millions have been and are being saved from tyranny for the fourth time this century-one can only marvel in alarm at the subtle efficiency with which international Communism has succeeded in corrupting...