Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, the evidence does not suggest that Hanoi will try to topple the Saigon government by military means alone -at least not soon. Captured Communist documents call for limited offensives in various parts of South Viet Nam during the current dry season, which will end in late May. The main purpose is to erode ARVN morale, break up Saigon's administrative network in government-controlled districts and upset the South Vietnamese economy while killing or capturing as many troops as possible. Hanoi evidently hopes that a series of defeats will demoralize the South Vietnamese army. There are signs that...
...Eric Blair" suits him. The crisp syllables suggest a Briton of spare style and countenance. But he despised his real name; it smacked, somehow, of Aryanism and privilege. So he cloaked his origins in a common-sounding nom de plume. His disguise became him, and at last he became his disguise. Today the world remembers him only as George Orwell, seer of the future imperfect. Neither name nor reputation is quite correct...
This is the crux of Molière's comedy, but he had the benign sanity, as did Maugham, to suggest that without the white lies everyone tells each day, society would be insupportable. The house of cards would crumple...
...comments that "Things do lie at times. At the fair I saw a naked woman walking along the ceiling." But, she retorts, "This was not done with mirrors." Cocteau's French text has her say that the feat has "nothing to do with a machine." Machines, in this case, suggest the surreal aspects of the play more directly, anticipating the striking automatism of Death. Machines convey more than a link to the inhuman realm of the mirror; they also elaborate on the idea that the contemporary world has tried to preserve some fascination and belief in the supernatural by turning...
...minority representation here up to a level proportional to the population as a whole was nothing more than hollow words and empty rhetoric. Since 1971, the number of blacks admitted to the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has fallen steadily, and figures released last week suggest that this year will be worst of all. In a year when applications in general have remained substantially the same as last year, the number of black applicants to the College has plunged 25 per cent and at the GSAS an appalling 36 per cent. At the most, only...