Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when confronting revolutionary Asia, the humane American vision slips over into terror, and the Cold War mind -- "suspicious, dramatic, and above all, rational," reaches its most dangerous conclusions. To justify the defense of our wealth, and to satisfy our psyches, we see every social upheaval as a conspiracy: the National Liberation Front is controlled by Hanoi, and Hanoi by Peking. Oglesby suggests, more than half seriously, that we are fighting to show China that it must control Hanoi and the NLF, in order to create a rational Asian Communist coalition. We are practicing, Oglesby says, a politics of nostalgia...
...nation which ought to know, from our own inner life in Mississippi, Harlem, and Watts, that men do not have to be foreign agents to rebel; the revolution has its foundation in basic human misery, and that only the most desperate can embrace the hallucinatory terror of a life circumscribed by the hostile power of the state. Oglesby is appalled at our leaders' ability to manipulate politics, to deceive people, and coerce our allies. He is horrified at our capacity to watch computerized slaughter on the 5 o'clock news, and to support it. He wonders "where the good Germans...
...treated with a schematized shorthand that fits into a monumental scheme and robs them of their individual humanity. This propensity for slipping into an abbreviation of of human qualities recurs. The expression of the victim's face, in Watson and the Shark, is unconvincing as an expression of terror. Instead, it is a stony, symbolic expression that dehumanizes much of the experience...
Shedding the Sullenness. Then, in 1964, prison officials passed out some copies of a book titled Terror in the Name of God, a study of the Doukhobors written by Vancouver Newswoman Simma Holt, 43. The carefully documented book thoroughly refuted the Freedomite contention that the Canadian government had murdered Leader Lordly, and placed the Freedomites in a revealing context as only one of many fanatical Russian religious sects...
Wait Until Dark. A middling mystery thriller is rather like a war: 90% boredom and 10% terror. Wait Until Dark does not fight the percentages...