Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devastating earthquakes in China, the Colorado flood, the mysterious ailment that struck the American Legionnaires in Philadelphia-all suggest a more fundamental, and realistic, perspective. It would be banal to say that such demonstrations of nature's awesome force restore man's humility. Still, it is worth repeating the thesis of French Biologist Jacques Monod that events -and mostly the event of life itself-are profoundly random...
...later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play, and, incredibly, is seen by one of his ex-teammates when he leaves the stage. Whether Thompson means to suggest that this particular jock has special vision which permits him insights into the spirit-world is nuclear. But the effect again is of clumsy, misdirected symbolism in a play that should be presented as intensely realistic...
...Miltons are unable to fully resolve that question. Part of the answer, they suggest, lies in the desire of Mao and his closest associates to politicize the working masses and enable the Maoist leadership to recapture the straying devotion of his party. The Miltons cannot really explain how that desire was materially translated into the groups of Red Guards who took over the capital, who kept the population up at night with their loudspeakers blasting away at the ideological opponents; but it is clear they consider the dimensions of the revolution--which ultimately enveloped the national intelligentsia...
...people, Americans have been noted for their selfcriticism. I would suggest that we give at least equal time to extolling our virtues and triumphs. Let us look at both sides of the coin...
...Classics be rewritten, might not Hamlet some day be forced to say "What a piece of work is people!") They predictably bridle at "he" or "his" used as pronouns when the sex of the antecedent is unspecified (everyone will get his comeuppance). The plural pronouns "they" and "their," they suggest, could become singular, unisex pronouns. Purists will howl, but the usage (everyone will get their comeuppance) is already lamentably widespread...