Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed to mention one "reentry problem": the fate of those who are obliged to associate with the newly "aware" T groupies. Ah, the compulsive openness they are so determined to inflict upon us, the venting of untapped spleens and the breathless revelations of profound new sensual experiences, experiences most of us old normal deadheads have known for years. Seems like the "T-group" encounter amounts to little more than an adult rekindling of the pubescent awakening accompanied by an unrestrained display of their current hang-ups. Ho-hum. I hope the next encounter-group alumnus I meet will have already...
...prestige to the effort. Not since FDR has the presidential party ever amassed enough muscle to intimidate the congressional party-although the prospects have improved somewhat since the Johnson-Rayburn days. While Galbraith may be right about the Dixie nemesis, no one should expect the Democratic Party to inflict on itself a massive internal bleeding in its current state of health. With perhaps a lingering nostalgia for the days of Southern populism, some liberals expect the problem to take care of itself as the black Democratic electorate grows in the South...
...there are significant differences. For one thing, burned children are not victims of deliberate, conscious assault. Their injuries seem accidental, but actually result from the adult's unconscious wishes: the mother who "accidentally" leaves the boiling soup where the child can reach it, for example. Battering parents inflict terrible, sometimes mortal injury without expressing guilt, and they often voice open hostility to the child. In contrast, the mother of a burned child, in Mrs. Martin's words, typically shows "marked guilt, which helps preserve a virtuous front (necessary because the child is not felt...
...utterly unbearable situation of anonymity." And he can accomplish this without getting involved, without resorting to violence. But when such halfway measures fail, the individual who denies his autonomy confronts a more dreadful alternative: convinced at last of his own valuelessness, he must revolt against this self-debasement. "To inflict pain and torture at least proves that one can affect somebody." writes May. "To be actively hated is almost as good as to be actively liked...
...Israelis understandably sought to dramatize the heightened Soviet involvement. They also warned that they would take on the Russians if their own security was imperiled. "We do not want to inflict casualties on the Soviet pilots or any other pilots," said Premier Golda Meir, "but we have no choice." Later she added: "Other nations can surrender and still live, but we do not have that alternative." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that if aerial coexistence failed, the situation could lead to "something we did not intend-our attacking the Russians and Russians attacking our aircraft. In whatever words...