Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think this is unfair. We are all humans. A woman cannot call another woman sister without calling me brother. Forgive me this sentimentality; I grew up in the '60s. I believe we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all responsible for one another to some degree. The rampant and brutal indifference shown by some women to the plight of miserable or sick men depresses me. (I recall one professional panhandler, a woman, who said: "I'll always give money to another woman. We're in this together. I wouldn't give money to a man if his clothes...
...hereby propose a national campaign to boycott next year's Super Sunday at the Super Bowl, [Jan. 16]. For too long have we faithful fans gobbled up hours of insipid, rampant commercialism for the sole pleasure of watching poorly played, overprogrammed games. It was televised not out of love for the game, but so that huge corporations could beam down their benevolent images upon us. From now on, either we boycott it or they must pay us to watch...
...translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context. But the freeing of imagination by the surrealists remains a tremendous achievement. Be yond the froth - the ideological absurdities, the rampant narcissism, the window display and chic decor - surrealism remains one of the century's noblest proposals of liberty...
...Bergman wishes to explore the roots of Nazism-"the al ready perfect reptile" that could be discerned, as one of the characters says, in the egg to which the title refers. And so once again the audience is treated to views of Germany in the early '20s-inflation rampant, democracy feeble, sex decadent, anti-Semitism emergent, National Socialist bullyboys beginning to feel their oats...
...rampant spread of Christianity is the best news we've read in years, and it gives us renewed hope for the future of our great nation...