Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a nation should glory in its individual citizens' athletic achievements. But it is wrong that the nations should use the athletes themselves as tools in the continuing ideological combat. The Games should be, as they were for the Greeks, a period of respite from the depression and the terror of strife. The Olympics must be preserved as a major testing ground for international harmony, not as a minor battleground in international conflict
Cities, like people, react to war in different ways. After a month of terror, Saigon has totally lost its old insular mood of relative peace and well-being and developed a bothersome split personality. By day, the South Vietnamese capital is struggling to regain a veneer of normalcy; by night, as artillery crashes in the suburbs and searchlights stab the sky, Saigon retreats to a mood of agonizing fear and foreboding, awaiting another Communist onslaught that most of its citizens feel is inevitable...
Wacholder (Id?) tries various methods of getting rid of Wurz (Superego?): threatening letters, "nerve foam," a mass meeting to declare Wurz's nonexistence. Despite his increasing terror, Wurz refuses to leave. Eventually, he is turned into a domesticated animal by his wife and homosexual sons; Wacholder digs a hole in the sand and buries himself. Whether this symbolizes the end of the world, the decline of the West, or simply the end of the play, it comes as a relief...
...been any problem in any of the groups I've had, because it's very simple--you handle it matter-of-factly. The patients are not that intersted in sex, anyway. It's not the issue. The issue is fear, and terror, and sickness, and trembling unto death, a la Kierkegaard...
...Near Minsk. "Collective resistance," writes Miss Levin, "was never possible; by the time Jews grasped the reality that they were doomed to be killed no matter what they did, they were isolated, weakened and abandoned." And until that terrible moment, there was the diabolical "tease-and-terror seesaw" psychology of the Nazis, who deliberately "cultivated the illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than...