Word: overwhelmingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two years ago, black mayoral candidates were elected in Cleveland and Gary, Ind., by small margins while Boston voters chose a moderate over a hardliner. The shift in popular sentiment has not been overwhelming, but just enough to make the difference.
By itself, the subtraction by August of 25,000 men from the 537,500 Americans now in South Viet Nam hardly represents an overwhelming change in the arithmetic of U.S. commitment. Yet it is a tangible and substantive measure that is part of a larger strategy. For the first time...
Individual Horror. "Listen," Peckinpah says, "killing is no fun. I was trying to show what the hell it's like to get shot." Using a combination of fast cutting and slow motion, Peckinpah creates scenes of uncontrolled frenzy in which the feeling of chaotic violence is almost overwhelming. Where...
Radcliffe dorms are not unlike Revere Beach for people who live there without wanting do. There is the same uncontrollable carnival of the senses in both. Hemmed into twelve square feet of space or less, constantly under the eyes of roommates and wandering acquaintances, subjected to a level of noise...
If the U.S. has moved toward a new permissiveness in sex, however, no such tolerance has developed toward the use of drugs. Only those under 30 indicate any desire to legalize marijuana; otherwise, the denunciation of pot is overwhelming. In fact, 90% associate drug use with "moral corruption and decay...