Word: weaponed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sound strategy only so long as McCarthy keeps slugging. If McCarthy cannot slow Kennedy's pace, Humphrey will have to fight more vigorously to pick up delegates in the nonprimary states and to maintain a creditable standing in public-opinion polls. The Vice President began testing a rhetorical weapon last week-the phrase "New Democracy"-that may become his equivalent of "New Deal" or "New Frontier...
...with militarism, license, revolt, sadism or criminality. Worse, the newscaster's carefully modulated vocal intonation of emotional neutrality carries a powerful subliminal, nonverbal "message" to impressionable minds about society's indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation, emphasis...
...camera took aim at the rifle's innards and then switched back to a crew-cut sergeant in fatigues who breezily demonstrated how to strip the weapon...
...some of the era's most sacred cows. Admirers of the work are well reminded, as Cyril Connolly wrote, that "it might be described as the first book of the twenties. He struck the note of ridicule which the whole war-weary generation wanted to hear, using the weapon of Voltaire on the creators of the Red Cross and the Public School System. To the postwar young people it was like the light at the end of a tunnel...
West Germany's leftist students idealize violence as a necessary weapon for revolution against what they consider their country's corrupt and repressive society. After their leader, Rudi Dutschke, was badly wounded by a would-be assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in virtually every major city. Last week, bruised and battered from police truncheons, they were having some second thoughts about the efficacy of violence. They had, in fact, found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined...