Word: infliction
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...from Mao's Phase II (small-unit guerrilla war) to Phase III (large-unit warfare). One objective would be to hit the Saigon regime at a time when the U.S. was able to throw few troops to its support. The other objective, in this hypothesis, would be to inflict a mortal political wound on Nixon by means of Tet-style attacks, thus paving the way for the election of a new President inclined to a hastier exit from South Viet...
Even in Marshall McLuhan's "global village," world opinion remains a force of unpredictable strength. Worldwide indignation did nothing to stop the savagery inflicted on the Biafrans, nor could it persuade the terrorists in Canada to spare the life of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte (whose three alleged kidnapers were arrested last week outside Montreal). It has had no leverage at all on Hanoi, which has rejected every U.S. proposal for an exchange of P.O.W.s, and continues to hold more than 300 Americans in its prison camps. Yet last week, in two cases that created shock waves throughout...
...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...