Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...
...Communism as the only alternative, since nobody wants that oppressive system. The real alternative to both systems is democratic socialism, which can be achieved through reform and evolution-precisely what has been happening in America. As socialists work to modify the system toward even greater democracy and equality, the specter of authoritarianism will be raised. Yet America has been moving toward socialism for four decades, and our system provides greater liberty today than ever before...
...Geneva Specter. At the same time, however, Kissinger provided pressure where needed, particularly on Israel, which he considered primarily responsible for the breakdown. The U.S. policy reassessment was ordered and aid halted until the re-examination was completed. Kissinger even invoked the specter of the U.S. leading the way to a Geneva conference it really did not want, proposing border changes that Israel at least was not keen on. He knew that neither Egypt nor Israel wanted that route because it would bring the Soviets, other Arab nations and the P.L.O. into the discussions, broadening and complicating what seemed...
Britain's troubles raise the specter of international bankruptcy, a situation in which an uncontrollable run on the pound would force Britain to declare a moratorium on repayment of foreign debts, slap tight controls on wages and prices and limit imports drastically. The result would be a sharp decline in British living standards. While recently presenting a new budget that imposes an additional 25% tax on most luxury items, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey warned that Britain must not exhaust the patience of foreign lenders. "We would then face the appalling prospect of going down in a matter...
...rifle-fire, members of every social class will at last be able to go about their business in peace. City workers, businessmen and shopkeepers, even Saigon government employees (many of them have apparently been kept on by the Provisional Revolutionary Government)--all will benefit from freedom from the specter of bombs and rockets, and from having a government with wide popular support, committed to equality and to industrial and agricultural development...