Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community!" one man shouted. "They're not wanted in the black areas." "If we had good policemen, there'd be no need for dogs," said another. For their part, the two attending policemen took the lambasting fairly calmly, admitting that there was a "100 percent breakdown in communications between police and segments of the community"-meaning the blacks. Discrimination was charged in virtually every sector of civic life...
...from its obvious shock value, a motor??? in Sanders Theatre, says Loewinsohn, helps ??? down the decorum of the place." In Meat ???corum-breakdown is accomplished by poems ??? pissing. Anal-fixative poetry is of course, as ??? as Chaucer and as current as what you read on ??? bathroom wall this morning. Since the poet ???ardly obsessed with this trick. one example. ??? the appropriately titled "Paean" is adequate...
Last week a breakdown in the system made 8,200 Nebraska schoolchildren pawns in a bureaucratic clash. Thousands of youngsters elsewhere could also become involved...
...crime; yet few grasp the complexities of the problem or the possible solutions. In fact, half the city's black robbery victims are black. Roughly 80% of all black murder and rape victims are also black. Moreover, the city's law enforcers alone cannot cure the social breakdown that is Detroit. To cope with crime realistically, Detroit needs an urgent infusion of better urban planning, civic reform and economic development...
...American Psychiatric Association has approximately 400 black members out of 17,000; the American Psychological Association refuses to give a color breakdown of its 30,500 membership...