Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit...
During the early '30s, Reagan got a job as a sports announcer for a couple of Iowa radio stations. He had a crack ling delivery-so intense that he could keep his listeners enthralled with his account of a distant baseball game that Reagan would follow from the studio with the help of cryptic messages from a ballpark telegrapher and a fertile imagination...
...fearing white folk in Georgia's Rabun County were scandalized in 1944 when "Miss Lil," Judge Frank Smith's middle-aged spinster sister, wrote a harrowing, compassionate novel about a Negro girl who was made pregnant and abandoned by a no-account white man. Lillian Eugenia Smith's Strange Fruit was unfashionably out of step with its time and place. It ridiculed white supremacy, scathingly described the lynch-burning of a Negro wrongly suspected of murder, and was spattered with words that a Southern lady was not even supposed to know. Its prose won no literary prizes...
...hard work, for the southerners include military men and members of such disparate groups as the Cao Dai, the Hoa Hao, the Dai Viet party, and a new "Movement for the Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising Sun" party are trying to fuse worker and peasant sentiment in support of his American-backed land-reform and free-unionism platform. And South Viet Nam's ethnic minorities...
...process of change also depends on pumping more money into the system. There must be money to experiment with any money to finance the establishment of new programs which increased knowledge tells us should be adopted. Thus, if a better way is found for handling the men who account for more than two million drunkenness arrests each year than the present never-ending cycle of police, court and jail, we will need money for the facilities and staff to deal with them...