Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only slightly less devastating are the weapons of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) that are already within the reach of contemporary warriors. Sophisticated and sinister, CBW can be waged in many ways. There are gases that can incapacitate an opponent temporarily or deal him a quick, mortal blow. A few pounds of LSD in a city's water supply could theoretically send the entire population helplessly tripping. Entire nations could be infected with strange, drug-resistant diseases spread by a handful of immunized saboteurs...
...school will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal sin. Dispensations, however, are freely given, and since many students simply ignore the ban, a full one-third of the enrollment is Catholic...
...that wasn't there last year." Many of the 900 vociferous delegates at Michigan State University seemed to be convinced that the U.S. is in a "prerevolutionary" stage in which the forces of conservatism will use violence to stamp out change. They treated reporters covering the convention as mortal enemies. Like many other radicals, the delegates displayed something of a martyr complex, expressing fear that S.D.S. was in imminent danger of being squelched by "the system...
...heroine's clothes. Rodney Buckthorne is that ever popular fantasy figure, the artist in goat's clothing, who prances irresistibly through several marriages (his own and other men's), countless boudoirs, the stodgy academic community and the massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final...
...winds were always successful in outblasting the strings and often completely obliterated the fiddlers who seemed in particular to be their mortal enemies. The leather-lunged trumpets vandalized the two outer movements of the Beethoven, while percussionists ran roughshod over the Mozart overture...