Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, the answer appeared simple, even if it was not. Most Jews seemed to decide that to be a Jew was to commit oneself to Israel. In the five years since then, that answer has apparently remained sufficient for many Jews. Says Rabbi Robert Seigel, Hillel Foundation director for North Carolina: "Israel's survival is our survival...
...loss of consortium if his wife is injured, while only a minority extend a parallel right to the wife when the husband is incapacitated. North Carolina and Missouri even allow a woman to defend herself against a criminal charge by arguing that her husband ordered her to commit the crime...
CRIME Crime by females is increasing. In 1970 rates of robbery (up 187.9% over 1960), burglary (133.8%) and auto theft (133%) are all going up faster among women than among men. In absolute terms, women still commit far fewer serious crimes than do men (215,614 arrests of women to 1,058,169 for men in 1970), and that makes the rate of increase more striking The percentage of females in federal and state prisons is therefore still small (3 to 4%), but three of the notables on the FBI's list of twelve "most-wanted" fugitives are women...
Even if Clifford Irving did commit fraud and perjury on the road to becoming a folk hero, he also provided us all with a refreshing break from the atrocities of Bangladesh and the bombings in Ireland. And just incidentally he helped sell a few newspapers and magazines...
...cult of madness, the far-out wing of Dionysus, has passed its judgment on reason more harshly than Nietzsche could have foreseen; but the time is coming when judgment must be passed on the Dionysiacs themselves. The irony is that as absolutes, Reason and Unreason commit the same mistake. The ideology of Reason was an attempt to escape human complexity by rising above it. The ideology of madness is an attempt to escape by plunging beneath it. Impulse to action-no hesitation in between, no regret afterward-is the romantic dream of those who envy animals and madmen...