Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports now filtering to the West talk of "communists" slaughtering innocent refugees from the central highlands abandoned by Thieu last week. But these reports are still incomplete; this latest bloodshed may well stem from the traditionally vicious rivalry between the Montangard highland tribes and the Vietnamese people rather than from deliberate policies...
Still, he is bothered. "My circles have given me a pretty rough time. Some of the reviews [of About Behaviorism] are really vicious. But I don't read most of them... As one of my colleagues said, I've had 'the worst press since Darwin.' I'd have to say Freud would be a near runner-up on that. I get fantastic name-calling. I just don't understand why anyone would do it. A review of my book came out just a couple of weeks ago by a disturbed psychiatrist named Szasz: I'm a 'murderer, a megalomaniac...
...from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees him through the crisis and begins to pick up some of his anxieties...
Located on twelve acres of leased land near Falmouth, the institute focuses most of its attention on a growing scientific concern: that the Green Revolution may be failing. As Todd explains it, the use of pest killers to maintain the revolution's high-yield grains has triggered a vicious cycle: "Soils decline in quality, which in turn makes crops more vulnerable to pests or disease. This creates a need for increasingly large amounts of pesticides and fungicides for agricultural production to be sustained." As a result, says Todd, he shares "the disquieting feeling that we are witnessing the agricultural...
...nightmares are growing worse. Last night I kept dreaming that this pack of vicious gophers attacked my ankles. I beat them off with a hockey stick, but they kept coming back, finally over taking me completely...