Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student' essay." Trudeau's caricature TIME reporter was equipped with camera, notebooks and binoculars. He eagerly greeted the communards ("Hi, there, children of the Seventies!") and proceeded, during several daily episodes, to be hoodwinked by the Doonesbury denizens into believing that the place was a scene of rampant drugs and sex. The results of all the tomfoolery at Walden Puddle soon appeared as a TIME cover story on campus life called "The New Hedonism" (see cut). Officials at the local college were promptly besieged by complaints from alumni, and a dean called Zonker Harris to explain. Zonker blamed...
...Mattresses spread on floors in hallways and next to urinals. . .food often infested with insects . . . many toilets will not flush and are overflowing . . . overpowering odor . .. exposed wiring poses a constant danger . . . inadequately heated and ventilated . . . rampant violence and jungle atmosphere .. . wholly unfit for human habitation...
...Rampant Breeding...
...terrorist, with coat of arms indicating Irish, P.L.O., Argentinian, Angolan-quartered with Lebanese, Italian, American and a few other good lines -bearing a handgun, rifle, submachine gun, knife, grenade and or bomb, with crossed bandoliers and fear rampant...
...less spiritual. But I suppose this is a price we all pay." Moreover, the image of underdeveloped countries as idyllic Arcadias despoiled by contact with the First World is a myth. Disease, famine and violence (sometimes even cannibalism) were rampant in primitive societies; inequality of wealth and power was the rule rather than the exception. Almost all the underdeveloped nations were poor before industrialization began in the North, and they cannot blame their continued Impoverishment on the First World's success...