Word: wields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the drama lies in watching Dysart wield his liontamer's chair, part in watching what happens to him as he is forced to compare his own barren life with the daily ecstasies of his patient. But the most powerful part of the drama is Shaffer's use of the psychiatric technique of abreaction--the literal replaying of key events--on stage. This allows him to get anything he wants on stage without any question of its being out of place. The choreographed ritual of the blinding, over in an instant, is much less like melodrama when it comes...
...industrial nations it was becoming clearer that they could not afford to continue hemorrhaging vast amounts of their financial resources to the oil exporters unless they were ready to see a shift of the globe's geopolitical balance. The OPEC nations, with great financial clout, would be able to wield decisive influence in the world's political councils and could become arbiters in tune of crisis. The mood of urgency was intensified at midweek, when Kuwait and Venezuela announced further tax increases of 3.5% on the oil that they export...
...vocalizings of the more inept ideologues of white supremacy--the geneticists of a new type (scientists in name, white supremacists in deed)--a frank appraisal of the situation suggests that their influence at Harvard is stronger than Harvard's public liberal image admits. How they came to wield such power, even in the presidents' office, is a mystery which at this point only President Bok can unravel. Although some clues in that mystery can only be provided by President Bok, I would like briefly to locate a few essential components of that mystery...
Since its birth in 1900, the Labor Party has always been closely tied to the unions, which wield more than 80% of the voting strength at Labor Party conferences. Up to and throughout the '60s, unions were clearly the horse to the Labor Party's cart. But now the accumulated strain of the inflationary '70s seems to have caused the once cooperative unions to bolt. Wilson's fate in the Oct. 10 elections depends largely on his ability to convince voters that he will be able to rein in the runaways...
Haile Selassie, for all his failings, acted as a glue binding together Ethiopia's disparate parts. Without him, the country may be increasingly difficult to govern, especially if-as some experts fear-there is a struggle between military men who want to wield total power and those officers (backed by a large number of students and academics) who want a leftist government dominated by civilians. Such a clash would clearly delay the reforms needed to bring Ethiopia belatedly into the 20th century...