Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the episodes are pure fantasy, but Thompson's first person account -- a combination of fastpaced action, immediate detail and extended dialogue -- lends them an air of realism or at least exaggerated fact. The element of fantasy gives an excuse to succumb to the book's outrageous humor, but the underlying mood is one of paranoia and repulsion. That is namely Thompson's "fear and loathing" of a Dream that mesmerizes people so completely, as they gorge their egos with dollars, that they are blind to social responsibility...
Public broadcasting, especially public affairs TV, eventually could succumb to the Administration's programming desires. While conveniently placing the burden of finance onto private sources, CPB hopes to retain programming power. By withholding funds on public affairs programs, CPB forces public TV out of public affairs and back to language correspondence courses...
Berrigan said that the only church group which did not succumb to America's will is the Buddhist Church of Vietnam. "By their persistent opposition to war's violence the Buddhists provide the best example a concerned American can look to," he said...
...imagination can transcend pain if other people are left well out of it when Offending the Audience came on. It proceeded to put to the torch all such thought patterns, and with a Spanish Inquisitor's lack of mercy. This "play" by Peter Handke politely refuses to succumb to comment, criticism or description: I must have composed ten brave little reviews in my head during the production, only to feel each one neatly self-destruct as the play went on. Offending the Audience tears down theatrical illusions you didn't know you had. And except for a language sometimes knotted...
...terms like le whisky and le weekend, the government banned 350 offenders from official usage and urged the French to drop them from everyday currency as well. In place of the Anglicisms, the government proposed French substitutes. Flashback, for example, can be replaced by retrospectif; hit parade will succumb to pal-mares (literally, prize list); one-man show will be rendered spectacle solo; tanker will become navire citerne...