Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government's use of psychiatry for political purposes is particularly dangerous because it is a direct assault on the victim's mind. The problem is compounded by the inhuman, illegal conditions of detention in the special psychiatric hospitals, by the conformity and hypocrisy of our closed society and by the absence of an independent press. I am speaking here about any use of psychiatry for political or ideological purposes, not just those cases when mentally healthy patients are forcibly confined in psychiatric hospitals...
Time was when monthly bills were simply an affront to one's wallet. Now they can be an assault on the senses as well. Cosmetic and fragrance manufacturers have taken to packing heavily scented promotional material into the envelopes carrying statements from credit-card companies and retailers. Fashion magazines have gone aromatic too, surrounding readers with unsolicited bouquets...
...absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress underscores this terrible and brutal irony...
...Prime Minister, Komarek responded, "I leave this open. My position personally is very modest. I don't think a well-brought-up person ! should say, 'I want to be Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says, "is the establishment immediately of an interim government of experts, democratic experts." For their part, the Civic Forum leaders fear that what they perceive as a bid for power by Komarek might upset the delicate consensus that has given the opposition...
Performed in concert with students throughout the "Seven Sister" traditionally all-female colleges, the RUS memorial occurs after Wednesday's assault on a science class in Montreal, allegedly by Marc Lepine...