Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terror as a reviewer--and treated mediocre work from his friends as a personal reproach. But merciless as his criticism was, the poets treasured it. "I wrote to the mind of Randall Jarrell," Adrienne Rich writes and many of the contributors like her recognize Jarrell's capacity for understanding just what they were trying to do in their poetry, telling them when and how they failed, and encouraging them to keep going. "Twice or thrice, I think he must have thrown me a lifeline," Lowell says...
Moss extracts amazing performances from the two, sending them through the first act so breezily that the disease and terror which clank from the script are reduced to melancholy, and even that faded. It is worth purchasing a copy of the play to take the measure of their achievement. Miss Russell sustains a frantic levity, as though she shortly expected her limbs to drop off. Placed against this is Miss Cox's bitter rationalism, her consciousness that everything she does is correctly reasoned from false premises...
That spoof recently made a big splash on A Series of Birds, the boldest, brashest and most controversial new show on British TV. The star, director, writer and most of the cast are John Bird, 30, whose devastating mimicry of Wilson and other world leaders made him the terror of the telly a few years ago on That Was the Week That Was. But unlike TW3, which confined its satire to a string of short, disconnected vignettes, Bird's new show preys on a wide range of subjects in one continuous 25-minute sketch...
...disinterested knowledge. Such, at least, is the traditional wisdom. But it is not adequate to our time. . . . Today the distinction between pure and applied science is disappearing with the growth of state power so imperious and technologically competent, that it can transform the most esoteric knowledge into techniques of terror...
...since by the 1990s as many as 50 countries may belong to the nuclear club, there is also a real possibility of atomic war-directed, most probably, by one small, adventurous state against another of the same kind: "While the balance of terror is a great deterrent to conservative powers, to a reckless power the balance of terror may look like an opportunity or shield behind which it can get away with a good deal." In the event of nuclear war between two major powers-not necessarily involving the U.S. or Russia-the world is likely to survive...