Word: bona
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There is something about emotionally charged political movements: until they mobilize enormous crowds of adherents in one place on one day, they do not feel quite bona fide. Last weekend in New York City, the diffuse U.S. antinuclear arms movement produced its first such mass spectacle when 150,000 protesters paraded past the nearly empty United Nations complex and then joined 350,000 more compatriots for a rally-cum-concert in Central Park. The Saturday demonstration, New York's largest ever, was well planned and peaceful, and timed to coincide with the U.N.'s five-week-long special...
...minors accused of felonies and major misdemeanors, they would be tried in ordinary criminal courts. While juvenile judges tend to be strict with status offenders, they are often overly tax in their treatment of bona fide criminals who happen to be young. The only difference between the juveniles and the adults would be in sentencing; juveniles, as they currently do, would get shorter sentences and in separate juvenile facilities. Another promising correctional innovation is the "shock sentence" for juveniles--usually 30-to-60 days of confinement to give young offenders a close look at "hard time." The Massachusetts Department...
Central Vermont is enjoying the precise mid-stage of mud season. In Montpelier, the nation's smallest state capital, Nona Estrin says, "We've finished watching the snow melt, and we are about to begin watching the mud dry. Both are bona fide full-time activities. You may have a full-time job, but watching spring come is the romance in your life." An administrator with the state senior citizens program, she has been up since 5 a.m.: "I don't want to miss a moment, there is so much going on at this time of year...
...started when a bona-fide superstar. Andy Messersmith, landed a ton of money as the first free agent. Soon every all-star from Vida Blue to Dave Winfield wanted a million dollar contract. It wasn't long before everybody--scrub, manager, and batboy--wanted his share of the megabucks...
DAVIS'S RELIANCE on anecdotes is all the more frustrating because he seems to have something to say about Hamilton--and America--but it too frequently gets buried by the narrative. As a bona fide resident of Hamilton, Davis can avoid the cliches so common to "mood of the country" pieces, the kind made most famous by Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post and regurgitated with such predictability come the New Hampshire primary. ("The waitress poured another cup of coffee at the Portsmouth Diner and talk, as it tends to at this time of year, turned to politics...") Davis...