Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...
...great unreported stories of the past 30 years is the steady erosion of individual rights that is turning us into a different kind of country. If we put a floor under wages and a ceiling over prices, a free man cannot long stand erect. Someone has to make it clear that the collision course between Government price and wage controls and personal liberty is inevitable because, in the end, Government allocation of economic resources requires force." So, he continues, when considering any form of price and wage restrictions, the question should not be "Will it work?" but "How does...
...week competition was billed as a dress rehearsal for next year's 22nd Olympiad, but it quickly became clear that most of the visitors' roles would be played by understudies. Though some 2,500 outsiders were on hand to vie for medals with 10,000 Soviets, many foreign stars chose either to remain home or compete elsewhere. The U.S. track and field team, for example, arrived without such mainstays as Hurdler Edwin Moses, Miler Francie Larrieu, High Jumper Franklin Jacobs and Middle Distance Runner Steve Scott. Even the East Germans seemed to have better things to do, preferring...
...unsettling view. An adolescent stumbles through a fog of self-fascination, with no clear view of himself; then, by the time he is grown and has children of his own, a swirl of love and rage occludes his perception of them. Literature offers a useful look, but most often it is a look at that minority of tormented adolescents whose members grow up to write novels about the pain of puberty, not the joy. Films of the traditional sort did not risk truthtelling, largely because of the hoodoo of sex. What they gave us was Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland...
Instead their effect seems to have been to clear the air, so that the sexuality of the very young can now be dealt with without the eye rolling formerly considered appropriate to the violation of a taboo. Thus a distortion that falsified whole characterizations has been removed. To see the difference, one need only watch television drama, where the taboo still holds...