Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearings. Soldiers beat people and burned books. Ten people were shot by firing squads after summary courts-martial for hostile acts against the new government. Man hunts were still being conducted for some of Allende's major political collaborators, and long-haired youths were still being subjected to instant haircuts...
...Today, time-outs are given for a sound athletic reason - the sponsors need time to air their messages. (Those sponsors tackle each other for the privilege of paying up to $70,000 for a one-minute, Sunday afternoon commercial.) The networks, with their zeppelins and zoom lenses, their dreamlike instant replays of color and violence, have changed football watching from a remote college pastime to something very much like voyeurism...
...response last summer was instant - thousands of letters from both interested families and lonely old people...
Despite its obvious doctrinaire intention, Public Purpose has plenty to say about issues right out of any morning's newspaper. The book has a fascinating chapter, for example, on "the concept of the household" that is bound to become an instant classic in Women's Lib anthologies. Consumption, while basically fun, says Galbraith, also involves a lot of work: maintenance of house, appliances and automobiles; food preparation; and "participation in competitive social display " Current economic truths presume that these duties fall to women, who are thus in a "crypto-servant" class. "Menially employed servants were available only...
...this points to the absurdity of Theodore White's instant historical analysis in his fourth book on presidential elections since 1960. He has unsuccessfully attempted to crystalize the liquid, flowing, unresolved events of the 1972 election into hard-core analysis...