Word: account
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...family or an acquaintance. The arrest rate for murder among Negroes is ten times that among whites, but most of the violent crimes committed by Negroes are against other Negroes. Violence is increasingly an urban phenomenon: 26 large cities containing less than one-fifth of the U.S. population account for more than half of all major crimes against the person. Poets sometimes have sociological insights, and Robert Lowell knew what he was talking about in his lines...
...generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture with the same freedom enjoyed by their Protestant counterparts...
...that is sweeping much of the Negro community. And sometimes their reporters can do a better job than white journalists. Chicago's white dailies had attempted stories on the city's Negro slums, but the Defender's Betty Washington was able to produce a much better account after going to live in the slums for several weeks. Charges of police brutality -the most frequent complaint-are commonplace on Page One. And militancy-within bounds-seems to pay off. By concentrating on civil rights, the bouncy In Sepia Dallas has raised circulation from 5,000 to an estimated...
...dollars, the 30 Dow-Jones industrial stocks account for one-third of the total value of all 1,262 common issues listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its relatively restrained rise has mirrored investors' doubts about the profit prospects of some of the D.J. giants in currently or recently troubled fields: steel (U.S. and Bethlehem Steel), autos (General Motors and Chrysler), oils (Texaco, Standard of California and Jersey Standard), chemicals (Du Pont, Union Carbide and Allied Chemical) and, of course, A.T. & T., the world's largest corporation. Because all the Dow industrials have large numbers of shares...
Lolita, says Field, "is a novel of prisons." The idea for it came to Nabokov from a Paris newspaper account of a monkey who, "after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage." Humbert Humbert is a prisoner of lust. He imprisons first Lolita, then his deadly rival Quilty. Later he writes his memoirs from prison. For Nabokov, the book's theme is love-and the necessity to liberate love from "its extreme and seemingly mutually exclusive opposite, lechery." Eventually...