Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit against the state, which owns the resort. Rabbi Herschel Small testified that the Talmudic law of Yichud did indeed prohibit Ruth from sitting up overnight in the chair alone with young Jack. Last year a jury awarded Ruth $35,000 in damages and her father $2,231 for actual medical costs. Ruth married a rabbi after the ski-lift incident, but the marriage has been annulled...
...ethnic patterns. If these two minorities, black and Jew ? each with its distinctive and essential contributions to American society ? cannot get along, then the viability of the American experiment in pluralism is thrown into doubt. Thus, the conflict takes on symbolic values far more threatening than its actual substance...
...then, did the uprising fail? The authors argue that France's workers, although in actual control of many plants, "failed to take the next logical step: to run the economy by themselves as free and equal partners." The reason: they were unprepared for the responsibility, "overwhelmed by the unexpected vistas that had suddenly opened up before them." Beyond that, the Cohn-Bendits blame the established left: the Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they...
...symbolism of such traditional religious postures as subservience, fatefulness, destiny, and suprarational faith begin then to seem irrelevant to our actual experience. They lose credibility, and their religious function is weakened...
...hostility hidden in most vulgarisms for the sex act. Two examples are the transparent sexuality of the most romantic of marriage rituals ("Carrying the bride across the threshold really means crossing the threshold of the bride, doesn't it?"), and the homosexual tendencies of the Don Juan ("The actual meaning of the urge to get through intercourse as fast as possible is that one hates the woman, or women"). All this suggests the obsessive quality of man's erotic fears-and the cathartic character of the dirty joke...