Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young were seeing visions as the old stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help...
...been women; they also said that the effect of what we were doing was not unlike the rape itself. It was clear by the end that the manner in which we had been discussing the incident had been insensitive and offensive, which is to say that it sounded exactly the way women assume men will sound if they are sexist...
...moral vision you have brought to our political life") and praising William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher who had belittled him, caused critics to wonder about Bush's "corruption of ambition." Even George Will, one of the conservatives whose support Bush most coveted, was repelled. "The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another," wrote Will, "is a thin, tiny 'arf' -- the sound of a lapdog...
...some indicators, speculation in Gorby futures remains a sound investment. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, still the toast of the West, was host to members of the prestigious Trilateral Commission in Moscow last week, chatting amiably with Henry Kissinger, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. A day later the Kremlin announced that come November Gorbachev will visit Italy, raising the intriguing prospect of a historic meeting between the Communist Party chief and the Pope. And with a quick one-two punch, Gorbachev announced plans to reduce the Soviet military budget by 14.2%, while...
...within a four-day period nearly 44 years ago at the end of World War II, the Bomb is prone to mind-numbing abstraction. The TV series uses grainy, black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing its own bomb. The proposal comes...