Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of war--violent times, times when machismo dominates. "Men who rape in war," asserts Brownmiller, "are ordinary Joes made unordinary by entry into the most exclusive male-only club in the world. Victory in arms brings group power undreamed of in civilian life. Power for men alone. The unreal situation of a world without women becomes the primary reality...A certain number of soldiers must prove their newly won superiority--prove it to a woman, to themselves, to other...
Congress is an unreal world-and getting more so. Talk there is cheap and wild and it is rarely accountable. Senators and Congressmen do not have to carry out their decisions, do not have to make the Government work. They walk away from responsibility after they cast their votes...
...nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black model, who drew the attention of the mass media when she danced around a fantastically big can of deodorant on television...
...mammoth defense competitors Northrop and Raytheon--and unnamed others--Lockheed apparently has directed enormous sums to Saudi Arabia's flashy contract agent, Adnan Khashoggi, and his mysterious Triad Corporation. Lockheed officials reportedly payed Khashoggi $106 million in the last five years: the ante is high, but in the unreal world of big-money defense contracts, the stakes are higher still. In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, uneasy rulers are channeling huge sums into sophisticated weapons systems, and American companies are fighting with each other and with foreign competition to obtain slices of the increasingly lucrative...
...everybody watching it, this unreal, disappointing show? Because people are curious and Beacon Hill has gotten more publicity than any other show of the new season. Because Upstairs, Downstairs has a lot of fans and people were hoping for some sort of good show to forestall withdrawal symptoms until the English show starts again in January. And because TV is a holding medium--a form of recreation for tired minds who don't demand very much in the way of truth...