Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a versatile writer, joining what he called the "deadly hustle" of journalism. Like Great-Uncle Arnold, Huxley tried to use literature as a social tool. To his own disillusioned generation of post-World War I Englishmen, he was the cynical dandy who wrote such bright and nasty satires as Antic Hay and Point Counter Point. During the '30s he became the Huxley of the depressingly prescient and durable Brave New World (1932) and its vision of a totalitarian future, with eugenics, social engineering and government-dispensed tranquilizers...
Lawrence J. Kipp, present librarian of the Baker Library, said yesterday that Cole "came in when the library was beginning to take shape, and collected materials that eventually made it a very valuable research tool...
...causing the companies, mostly American, to look for safer, more profitable areas where they can place their capital. The National Enterprise Board, which will be run by Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the doctrinaire Minister of Industry, fills British businessmen with dread. They view it as a not-so-subtle tool for wholesale nationalization...
Harlequin's man Desmond abruptly finds himself plotting with and against a variety of thugs, terrorists, secret Israeli agents and FBI blue-suits for control of a large chunk of the globe's financial power. Terror seems to have become an ordinary, accepted tool of commerce and diplomacy. Or should that be reversed: Have diplomacy and commerce become tools of political terror...
...various government agencies as well as films by radical film-makers working outside the commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave...