Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schorr's claim of the lack of rehabilitation of convicts is a legitimate one, and certainly the nation's crime rate could be appreciably reduced with proper rehabilitative training of men and women felons. Yet to suggest that this is reason enough for Gilmore's behavior, evinced before the need for rehabilitation was even apparent, is spurious. To further indict society, thereby acquitting Gilmore, is to commit a travesty of justice...
...what the British critics call "the American barroom confessional play," in which the characters gorge beer and disgorge bathos. By play's end, nothing much has changed. Mansfield is still a place where worms do not turn, and Bobby is still a man who, despite his raging claim to independence, could scarcely command respect on two legs, let alone on four wheels. Supported by an admirable cast, John Cullum commands full respect and a role worthy of his talents...
...rights. But for Black people, a fifth freedom was essential. Black pioneers and Black martyrs like Martin Luther King, Jr. lived an experience of which Roosevelt was incapable. They knew that as an African person, in European America--a Black person in white America--in order to assert a claim to these four freedoms, we had to demand a fifth: the freedom to demand and expect to enjoy freedom. For unless racial discrimination, economic segregation, political exploitation and social humiliation were abolished, we were still slaves, still eliminated from the America that called itself free. For Black people to enjoy...
...Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also very clever...
...appointed defender of the British royal family. Lord Mountbatten has denounced the authors' conclusions about an aborted British rescue plot. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has stonewalled on the question of whether U.S. archives also contain documents regarding American complicity in a rescue plot. The authors do not claim that their conclusions are complete. But they are continuing to dig-and the new findings, especially in the U.S. archives, may be even more sensational than the intriguing material they have already unearthed. David Tinnin