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Word: beare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are in an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 26, 1966 | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...TIME is to be commended for setting the record straight as to the meaning of "the right to bear arms." That phrase has been used out of context by the gun lobby in its fight against a reasonable firearms law to suggest that every man, woman and child has a right to be armed to the teeth. The Founding Fathers never sought to inject such a remarkable concept into the Second Amendment. The Kennedy assassination, the attack on James Meredith, the University of Texas rampage must arouse Congress to enact laws aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...correct when you say, in reviewing Carl Bakal's The Right to Bear Arms [July 29], that the U.S. of 1966 has no marauding redcoats or redskins. But unfortunately we do have the Black Muslims, Hell's Angels, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. Since the beginning of time, man has needed to defend himself. To deny the honest citizen easy access to firearms is to deny him a life without fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...thinking men. Marcel Proust was so fastidious about noise that he had his study lined with cork. Juvenal bemoaned the all-night cacophony of imperial Rome, observing that "most sick people perish for want of sleep." To Schopenhauer it was clear that "the amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

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