Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most safety experts, licensing of boat operators isn't an "obvious answer" [Sept. 6]-it's a superficial one. Could a license have saved the boob who drove through the cabin cruiser or the nine nuts who went off without life jackets? Hot-rodders in cars have no trouble passing licensing tests. Neither would hot-rod skippers. More lives could be saved for less money by beefing up Coast Guard and state patrols to enforce our boating laws...
...saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong flags and spit on the Stars and Stripes that Dad fought for in World War II? In fact, blacks are by far the most frequent victims of black criminals, and there is no real political answer to youthful excess. Nonetheless, racial fear and generational disapprobation-on both sides-are potent forces in the politics of resentment. This is so not only among blue-collar workers. More and more, the clash is over fundamental value systems rather than public policy. The New Conservatism has not sprung full-blown...
...moderates are too intimidated by the Panthers to speak out, and quite a few like the way they stand up to white authority and foster black pride. But unless the white community reaches out in a more meaningful spirit of brotherhood, desperate and embittered young Negroes will continue to answer the Panthers' call...
Good questions, but the answers are hard to come by. Does the fault lie with strict parents or permissive teachers? Urban tensions or too much affluence? Last week Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College suggested that the answer to so much disaffection among the young is television. TV, said Hayakawa, addressing the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in his home town, is a "powerful sorcerer." It can bewitch children into becoming alienated and rebellious dropouts or even drug addicts. "Parents and relatives and teachers may talk to them, but the children find them sometimes censorious...
...hours before he arrived at the University of Texas tower to kill 13 people and wound 31 others. Charles Whitman strolled into an Austin hardware store and picked out several boxes of rifle cartridges. What was all the ammunition for? the clerk asked. "To shoot some pigs," Whitman answered calmly. In all its chilling banality, that scene is faithfully reproduced in this lightly fictionalized saga of a mass murderer. Self-consciously billed as the answer to the question "Why Gun Control?", Targets eventually falls victim to artistic overkill...