Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make decisions, the neurotic adopts an ideal model, and attempts to act as if he were that ideal. But he finds himself hopelessly stymied, since that ideal doesn't correspond at all to his own inner reality. Allan Felix in Play It Again, Sam is haunted by the specter of Bogart--when his wife leaves him, he can only ask himself what Bogey would have done. Bogey would have mended himself with the aid of a little bourbon and soda. But, Allen reflects, if he himself has "one thimbleful of bourbon, I run out and get tattoed...
...deluge attitude toward life, at least among those segments of the undergraduate body not paralyzed by sugar plum visions of stethoscopes. The tumbrils of '69 proved to have no permanent legacy, except perhaps by introducing Marx on a large scale into the social science curriculum. That neutralized the old specter alright. Henry Kissinger has already been summoned to Moscow to take over the reins for ailing Leonid Brezhnev...
...possibility that this grim scene will become a reality some day is highly remote. But the specter of nuclear catastrophe - energetically raised by Consumerist Ralph Nader and heightened by such books as John Fuller's We Almost Lost Detroit and The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas Scortia and Frank Robinson - has seeped deep into the U.S. consciousness. A growing number of Americans are now more concerned about the consequences of nuclear accidents than they are about the need for nuclear energy. To them, the menace presented by the nation's 56 operating nuclear power plants...
...which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink in hand, the nearly spent bladderballers chanted "Thirty-Two! Thirty-Two! Thirty...
WHAT ELSE can free women from the frightening specter of rape? The most immediate step, Brownmiller argues, is a complete revamping of the legal statutes that continue to make trials often unbearably humiliating for women, and conviction exceedingly difficult. "Rape, as the current law defines it," says Brownmiller, "is the forcible penetration of an act of sexual intercourse on the body of a woman not one's wife." Outmoded statutes must be replaced with a "gender-free, non-activity-specific law governing all manner of sexual assaults...