Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think education is the most urgent investment to make in Brazil, and the most productive. I think true education--taken as an urgent--taken as even as an emergency thing--is the most effective weapon to develop our economy and to grow up. And by education, of course, I don't mean only the skill of hands, but also the use of brains. We are wasting brains. We don't use them properly...
When the Now People go on the offensive, they break out three very effective weapons: the Put-On, the Gross-Out, and the In-Talk. The first, which they adapted from the American Negro and learned during the civil rights marches, is the technique of the elaborate lie, the phony story that is aimed at gulling the listener and shaming him without his knowing it. The Gross-Out -or "garbage mouth"-is a blunter weapon. A group of young people in a club dominated by adults will suddenly begin chanting four-letter words, louder and filthier all the time, until...
Psychedelic Flip-Out. The ultimate weapon of the alienated young remains the same as that employed by Goethe's Werther: oblivion, either physical (through suicide) or psychological (through drugs). Usually it is the latter, though suicide rates are rising through much of the world in the 18-to-25 age group. In Iran, for example, fully 95% of the suicides are in the Now Generation; in the U.S. nearly one in ten. More often, the flip-out is psychedelic. Acid-heads and pot smokers feel that they can ease the weight of the Sisyphean stone by drug...
Those brown eyes are Scofield's secret weapon, says Sir Laurence Olivier, but others think it is the voice. "You can't take your ears off him," wrote one London reviewer. It is an instrument of unmatched subtlety and quiet amplitude. Scofield agrees that "what reaches them is the voice-not the quality but the conviction of the voice...
...inevitable result was that, after six years of healthy, balanced growth, the pleasures of expansion turned into the pangs of inflation. Consumer prices pushed up 3.6% and industrial production expanded by an unsustainably high 8%. Striving for stability, the Government put its reliance largely on one weapon: the manipulation of monetary policy. Money became costlier and harder to borrow than at any time in 40 years...