Word: cites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something. Faculty who are more interested in being available to us and hanging out in places like Lehman Hall than in conferences and research bullshit (not research mind you, but research bullshit) might be a suggestion but I hesitate to try to cite general examples of our reasons for the ghost town thing that's happening. Let's stop sending people out demanding them to produce something...
Both supporters and opponents of the death penalty can cite ample horrors to justify their positions. Even the cleanest execution-and an appalling number are not-is so revolting to see that witnesses commonly vomit and faint. Electrocution is relatively swift, though the victim's flesh sometimes burns while his eyes strain out of their sockets. With cyanide and the rope, it sometimes takes five minutes for the dying man to fall totally unconscious, and usually 15 minutes before he is pronounced dead...
...signs; the American Cancer Society, after all, has papered the nation with car cards, posters, leaflets and advertisements listing the "seven warning signals." Yet 30% could not name a single one of the seven, 17% could identify only one, 40% knew two or three signs, and only 13% could cite four or more. Concerning heart disease, 27% could not name a single obvious symptom like shortness of breath or chest pain...
...previous book, The Omni-Americans, Murray was critical of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's study of the Negro family ("Not once does he cite any Negro assets that white people might find more attractive than black subservience"). He also took off after Kenneth Clark's Dark Ghetto, whose emphasis on black wretchedness, said Murray, "easily exceeds that in most of the books written by white racists to justify segregation...
...home depicting heaven as earth. Fouquet's Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Faithful includes squadrons of foiled devils in flight and cloaked elders in prayer. Beyond them the luminous Seine flows past the small green trees, dusty walls and spires of the He de la Cite, where Notre Dame Cathedral, its facade laced in gold, makes medieval Paris seem more than ever worth a Mass...