Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South, the Viet Cong were embarked on a new wave of terrorism aimed at thwarting village elections (see following story). In the Demilitarized Zone and in I (pronounced eye) Corps, the area comprising South Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces, there was an ominous upsurge in Communist military preparations, prompting the Allies to send in heavy reinforcements. North of the 17th parallel, the U.S. air war was measurably intensified by the first bombing raids within the city limits of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's second city and principal port...
...unreal, the phony. This generation has grown up with advertising, seen it all their lives and has developed an ennui with all the beautiful faces thrown at them." Adds Adman Hooper White, of the Leo Burnett Agency: "Today's TV commercials are an outgrowth of the 'new wave' of French films. They encouraged us to get away from stereotypes and start using nonprofessionals...
...habits of linguistic sense." Contemporary music also flies from exterior meanings. Language today can deal only with the surfaces of experience. "The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part," says Steiner, "is silence. The space-time continuum of relativity, the atomic structure of all matter, the wave-particle state of energy are no longer accessible through the word. Reality now begins outside verbal language...
This manifested itself in various ways. It manifested itself on the one hand in the imperialism of the turn of the century: in the wave of expansionist fervor that carried us into possession of Hawaii and the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the Canala Zone: all places not contiguous to our national territory. It manifested itself also, strangely enough, in the growth among many Americans of a peculiar emotional and sentimental preoccupation with China and the Asian mainland--a preoccupation quite divorced from considerations of real national interest. And it manifested itself also in a curious enthusiasm for the establishment...
...next week would be devoted to just that, through meetings, teach-ins, contacting community groups, etc., to recruit people for civil disobedience. Then after a week of mobilization the first wave of people would go to jail-probably in Washington, in demonstrations aimed at the Executive. Starting with perhaps fifty or a hundred people would be sent in waves each day, increasing in number. There would be a serious attempt to have each wave led by prestigious people and to use the press and the media as much as possible. Jail without bail for many is important, probably critical. People...