Word: breds
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Even if Gilmore lives, all of American society must accept the blame for the life he has led. Gary Gilmore's death-wish was bred by the despair of a society that has allowed him little chance to life within the law. Now 35 years old, Gilmore has spent 18 of the last 21 years in prison having been first incarcerated at the age of 14. In a society where convicts receive little rehabilitative training, and ex-convicts receive no consideration from potential employers, Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime to its seemingly inevitable...
Bloomfield's task is to create a king of mirror effect through which, for example, the town-bred Gwendolen and countrified Cecily seem merely of vanity and triviality. These are not, after all, three-dimensional characters; they are instead cardboard figures, albeit unusually witty ones, whose motto is "I speak, therefore...
...been a sustained success story, with few setbacks. This has bred the conviction that what works for America must necessarily be best for others. However, some of its influential thinkers have challenged prevalent assumptions. Poets and playwrights are curiously tentative, if not pessimistic. Young Americans roam in search of new values. Public self-questioning and a capacity for self-correction are indeed among the graces of the American temper...
...health professions have assumes that, given the opportunity, the socio-economically disadvantaged will return to their place of origin, a theory almost universally accepted as false. Although there is evidence that physicians from rural areas are more likely to practice medicine there than are students bred in the cities, there is no evidence that a majority of these "country boys" go home, as F. Sargent Cheever, Harvard's dean of admissions, has said...
...less likely candidate for stardom in Boston than Steven James Grogan would be hard to find. Bostonians, proper or improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early...