Word: overtness
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Widespread awareness of all this has itself contributed to the change. Psychologists report that 30 years ago the U.S. was in an "age of covert anxiety." It is now in an age of "overt anxiety." People tend to believe that it is wrong and "sick" to feel anxious or guilty; they are beset by guilt about guilt, by anxiety about anxiety...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...
...Betancourt, and another from Colombia's President Alberto Lleras Camargo. But after Berle and Quadros talked for two hours, about everything including Castro, a U.S. official would only say, "Well, they didn't throw bricks at one another." Real Fright. Obviously, any step against Castro that required overt support from Latin America was in for trouble...
...another story with the office building on stilts. Although Harvard has no overt interests, no designs on the strip of land that Sullivan has chosen for his brainchild, it does and should have a strong, civic interest. What problems the building will or will not pose is irrelevant here. It is significant only that the project will alter the face of the Square considerably, and that Sullivan's suggestion came first...
...made no secret of its private preference for anti-Communist Phoumi, quickly offered its support. A State Department spokesman warned that aggression against Laos from Communist North Viet Nam could bring both Thailand and South Viet Nam to the rescue and start a Southeast Asian war. But even without overt aggression, Boun Oum and Phoumi faced bitter days ahead. Though Phoumi declared that all he wanted was "a neutral Laos," the Communists were smarting for revenge, and from the Pathet Lao came an order of the day: "Develop guerrilla warfare powerfully. Destroy supply lines, communications and transport...