Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reports about the CIA and FBI activities, the Senate Democrats caucused last week. After hearing evidence that congressional oversight, particularly of the CIA, has been inadequate, the Democrats agreed, according to Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois, that "the danger of the police state is no longer unreal." They voted 45 to 7 to recommend that the Senate set up a select committee to investigate "the extent, if any, to which illegal, improper or unethical activities were engaged in by any agency" of the U.S. Government from the days of the cold war until the present...
...THEME, in a word, is alienation. And because alienation has been cooked to a charred kernel, at least since Eliot's "unreal city" in The Wasteland, all that is left to do is pick it apart into ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
...already resigned in despair over the deadlock. Kenneth Underwood, the school superintendent, was so upset by death threats that he and his family occasionally moved into hiding. "It seems like you're on a runaway locomotive," he said. "It's a hopeless feeling-it's unreal." Underwood has announced that he will quit as soon as the board can hire a replacement. Furthermore, the 18-member committee appointed by the school board to review the texts is in chaos: at the first meeting, seven anti-book members resigned, declaring that they were under "pressures and ridicule...
Some critics detect a whiff of the unreal about the conclusions. Judge Nanette Dembitz of New York State's Family Court, for example, calls the proposal that can deny visiting rights "blind and untenable." But the book is making headway. In Washington, D.C., Judge Tim Murphy cited it in denying a custody claim by a natural parent. He also heeded the warning on the child's time-sense: once he made up his mind, instead of keeping the parties waiting for a written decision, he ushered them into chambers for an immediate ruling...
...restore confidence in his Administration's word. Jerry terHorst's unfortunate experience may make it difficult to recruit the right person for the job and impossible to bring back the exhilarating atmosphere of honesty and belief that surrounded Gerald Ford in his first month in office. That unreal glow is gone, and it will probably never return...