Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heroism? Economic self-interest? Better look closer to home for the basic cause of the American Revolution-America's moms in fact. At least so argues Lloyd deMause, Director of New York's Institute for Psychohistory. Addressing the American Association for the Advancement of Science, deMause maintained that children in 18th century Europe grew up in cruel environments that induced them to accept punishment and avoid rebellious behavior. But American children of the same period, said deMause, had strong and loving mothers, and were later unhappy when they were denied love by their mothers or symbolic substitutes. When...
...feel for the subject, Scorsese controls the tension of the movie; he's constantly holding something back. The violence is always there, murmuring relentlessly in the facial expressions of Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), in the sweltering New York City streets, but Scorsese restrains it, draws us ever closer to the explosion then retreats, telling us smilingly, "No, it's not time yet." And we wait anxiously for deliverance...
...Popular Democratic Party will run against Carlos Romero Barcelo, mayor of San Juan and head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP). The PNP derives its support mainly from conservatives in the middle and upper classes, though it appeals to all those who want Puerto Rico to cultivate closer ties with the United States. While as a state Puerto Rico would lose the power to offer tax exemptions, and island residents would have to pay federal taxes, they claim that the increase in federal assistance would compensate for the losses. When the PNP was in power, from...
...feeling in the area, as in the rest of the world, that congressional-Executive Branch quarrels in Washington have set U.S. foreign policy adrift. Many Latin Americans are also wondering whether the U.S. will help if Fidel Castro's Cuban expeditionary forces try to repeat their Angola performance closer to home. Then too, last week's trip came just after disclosures of illegal payoffs in Latin America by such multinational giants as Lockheed, Gulf and Occidental Petroleum...
Contract talks between the University and the Harvard Employees' Representative Association (HUERA), which had been suspended since last December, reopened yesterday, and HUERA's president said the two sides "are coming closer" to a settlement...