Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the United States will criminate poverty without radically changing, and that the country cannot lose the war in Vietnam if it employs its superior military power. "In a very real way," they note, "rhetoric without content breeds the politics of despair and nihilism. The slogans we use acutely heighten our sense of distance and radical alienation ... the failure of these slogans to specify any content also heightens our sense of desperateness and impotence...
Other students, shortening time horizons in a different direction, sought to heighten the quality of sensual and mental experience with hallucinegenic drugs or marijuana. Their drug-taking was often seen as a form of escaping or opting out of the system. But most of those who experimented with drugs--and itwas...
...best of TV-the imagination of its reporters, the skills of its engineers. Parabolic microphones pick up a quarterback's signal changes; they eavesdrop on conversations between a golfer and his caddy. Other gimmicks such as "instant replay," "stop action," and the split screen help to heighten drama and educate the fan in the intricacies of the game...
...honest, intelligent, occasionally ungrammatical. Fine. But, because of an enduring romanticism that dates back to the time you saw your first John Wayne western, you would like him to be more than he is. And the traces of Napoleon Solo cool--the clipped flippancy and modest arrogance--only heighten the unwarranted but inescapable disillusionment. You want to put him back into his element, the televised make-believe of T.H.R.U.S.H. villains, walkie-talkie pens, tranquilizer guns and the resourceful Illya...
...trouble serving into wind and sun, was broken. But he and Jarvis stayed alive with a series of brilliant passing shots and topspin lobs that broke Waltz. After Jarvis and Brooks held serve, the Crimson's second team won their third set, 14-12, to even the match and heighten the tension...