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<p>from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargasm_(Word)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Wargasm (Word)&#039;&#039;&#039; is a word which means the abrupt outbreak of total war. It was used by former [[United States Defense Secretary]] [[Dean Rusk]] in a description of a total war exchange. The term has also been applied to describe a crisis scenario in which total war might occur.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;Wargasm&#039;&#039;, The Barnhart Dictionary of New English Since [[1963]], Clarence L. Barnhart, Sol Steinmetz, and Robert K. Barnhart, Barnhart/[[Harper &amp; Row]], 1963, 497.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Writing in the [[The New Yorker]] issue of [[January 9]], [[1971]], Daniel Lang elaborated regarding Rusk&#039;s description in an article entitled &#039;&#039;A Reporter At Large&#039;&#039; ([[Atomic Bomb]]s). Rusk stated that if an all-out exchange, &#039;&#039;wargasm&#039;&#039;, happened, it would conclude &#039;&#039;with a handful of miserable survivors contemplating the folly of man.&#039;&#039;&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;A Reporter At Large (Atomic Bombs)&#039;&#039;, Daniel Lang, The New Yorker, January 9, 1971, 54.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The word wargasms has been applied to the presidency of [[John Fitzgerald Kennedy]] by [[Paul Goodman (writer)]]. In reference to the [[existential]] and &#039;&#039;Reichian&#039;&#039; aspects of the orgasm put forward by [[Norman Mailer]] in &#039;&#039;The White Negro&#039;&#039;, Goodman used intellectual &#039;&#039;jugglery&#039;&#039; to connect the two distinct usages, i.e. wargasm and orgasm.&lt;ref&gt;&#039;&#039;The White Negro&#039;&#039;, Norman Mailer, &#039;&#039;The Steps of the Pentagon&#039;&#039;, [[Harper&#039;s Magazine]], March [[1968]], 55.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> *[[Category:1960s|Wargasm (Word)]]<br /> *[[Category:1970s|Wargasm (Word)]]<br /> *[[Category:American culture|Wargasm (Word)]]<br /> *[[Category:Cold War|Wargasm (Word)]]<br /> *[[Category:1971|Wargasm (Word)]]<br /> *[[Category:1968|Wargasm (Word)]]</div>

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