Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final and separate section of the book, he does his own inventing: a complex of psychoanalysts, a failing of students, an unction of undertakers (a larger group: an extreme unction), a rise of mini-skirts. He even outlines production rules: onomatopoeia, habitat, comment, etc. Always, the first term must pinpoint a feeling we have about the group being described. For instance, Lipton rules out calling prostitutes an anthology of pros, because the humor lies in the second term--anthology makes no poetic comment on prostitutes (a flourish of strumpets just might squeak...
...issue's visual problems are much easier to pinpoint than the literary ones. The drawings of David McClelland and James Rivaldo are gone, and they are a sore loss. Sam Vandam's caricature of Mayor Daley is properly Sorel-like, and his cartoons pop up throughout the issue, but it will be a while before he can match the bizarre beasties that crawled over McClelland's pages...
LIFTON'S approach, then, has a certain intuitive and empirical weight. But in seeking to pinpoint one key symbol and stretch it into a foundation for China's chaos, he strains his hypothesis. Lifton has an exceptional command of the data on the Cultural Revolution, and his scheme explains most of its history. But few of his observations (as he readily admits in the introduction) cannot be explained by political, sociological and economic theses. This would not argue against his approach if it were not for one thing: the tremendous difficulty of verifying generalizations about the psychological make...
...even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one has been able to explain just what it was in the tranquilizer-sleeping pill that produced seal-flipper limbs in children. Last week a German-born investigator with a grandfatherly manner was finally able to pinpoint to the American Chemical Society how thalidomide did its damage...
...fact, it was on Aug. 2 that President Johnson had received pinpoint information on the massive Warsaw Pact forces poised at seven potential entry points. Two East German divisions, the Soviet Eighth and Twentieth Guards Armies, the First Soviet Guards Tank Army and the Twenty-Fourth Soviet Tactical Air Army were mustered in East Germany. Hard by Poland's frontier was a detachment of Polish Silesian infantry and more than 3,000 Soviet tanks and troop-carrying vehicles were less than 25 miles from the Czechoslovak rail center of Zilina. Part of the Soviet Third Army manned Russia...