Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attacks on the ground that "terrorist incursions from Mozambique were increasing; it was essential to take action in self-defense." The guerrillas have traditionally infiltrated across the border to launch offensives during the December-January wet season, when thicker vegetation provides added cover. Some 3,000 guerrillas were thought to be preparing to move into Rhodesia from the camps...
Writers sometimes prevail over conformity and thought control in the Communist world. In Poland, where the relatively liberal government imposes an elaborate system of censorship, dissident writers are courageously risking retribution to produce a flourishing underground literature. In China-the most repressive of Communist nations-several long-banned novels and poems have begun to reappear in print. Although some of the authors had succumbed to the savagery of China's recurrent anti-intellectual campaigns, others had survived to witness this small but significant victory for the word...
...STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS! and LET'S GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N. "That's funny," observes a lady as he goads his reindeer skyward. "For some reason, I always thought of him as a liberal...
Like many men. New York Psychiatrist Anthony Pietropinto, 39, was appalled by last year's bestselling sex survey of women. The Hite Report. Says he: "1 thought it was anti-male and pro-homosexual." Author Shere Hite is indeed open to that charge. Her book depicts men as selfishly concerned with their own sexual pleasure, attacks sexual intercourse for "institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both...
...strengths. "No other great power has the confidence and stability to expose and face its own blunders," he wrote last year in a new introduction to his 1946 autobiography, Not So Wild a Dream. "We are a turbulent society but a stable republic. The mind goes blank at the thought of a world without one such power...