Word: thrall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This analysis presupposes that continual fighting is in the interest of the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese, who, many people still believe, use terrorism to hold rural Vietnamese in thrall. The opposite is in fact the case. The NLF achieved success because it effectively translated the aspirations of Vietnamese peasants for land reform and national unity into a program of revolutionary armed struggle. But now the time for fighting is over, and the liberation forces, unlike the Thieu regime, will profit from peace...
...century has robbed Ghosts of its shock effect; it has also clarified our vision of the play. Obvious now is the fact that syphilis was Ibsen's symbol rather than his subject. The disease stands for all that is twisted and stunted when life is held in thrall by narrow, provincial social conventions. People in such a society, Ibsen shows us, are not so much a prey to quiet desperation as to desperate hypocrisy...
...record industry will tell you, is a super-monster smash; dig it. It is performed in an illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33? r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums...
...inferior beings. In treatment, she insists, women are encouraged to talk instead of to act, to live passively instead of being active and to conform to a "feminine" role. They are forced to re-enact with their patriarchal therapists the role that initially made them sick: little girls in thrall to their fathers. Worst of all, women patients are often sexually exploited by male therapists, Chesler alleges...
More often, according to Lifton, a brush with death has long-lasting effects because it brings the survivor face to face with his own mortality, especially with the possibility of "premature death and unfulfilled life." Many survivors remain forever "in thrall to their death encounter." For some, the "death spell" takes the form of "fascination with scenes of death and devastation." Others grieve because they have lost their "innocence of death...