Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publicity, we are perpetually assaulted, kicked in the adrenal glands, frustrated and depressed vicariously by the stream of reports on rape, riot and rebellion in places we know nothing about, will never see, can do nothing for, and which consume our energies and misdirect our concerns from our real individual responsibilities for job, family and community. One man's information is indeed another man's identification with militarism, license, revolt, sadism or criminality. Worse, the newscaster's carefully modulated vocal intonation of emotional neutrality carries a powerful subliminal, nonverbal "message" to impressionable minds about society...
...officials were less than ecstatic, largely because of Parisians' voluble anti-Americanism, part of it engendered by the French Communist Party, Europe's second largest, and part by De Gaulle and his state-owned radio-television network. Nonetheless, there was not much real fear of disorderly protests. "The French are awfully good at maintaining order when they want to," said a U.S. official, "and we think they'll want to." The capital's riot cops?the Algeria-honed Compagnie Republicaine de Securite?are among the best anywhere. Moreover, the Quai d'Orsay's chief Asia expert, Etienne Manac...
...blunt language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio last year (dead: 38) and has pointed to managerial sloppiness as the real root of a Frontier Airlines crash in Colorado in which the pilot and copilot, the plane's only occupants, died. At week's end, the safety board dispatched a special team to Texas to investigate the crash of a Braniff International Electra, with 84 aboard, during a heavy...
...communal kitchens are not in evidence; now the tourist is lured by professionally made hippie costumes Pacifism, once the heart of flower power, has been supplanted by talk of armed violence. Most significant of all, the cast of characters has changed. City Supervisor William Blake says flatly: "The real hippies of last summer are gone...
...atom and soon the moon, is so aware of his strength that he is unaware of his weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...