Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core members, it is widely believed to have been behind the bombings of the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the Gulf Oil headquarters in Pittsburgh in 1974, among other criminal acts...
...obviously shaken over what appeared to him to be a thoughtless disruption of all his careful and so far eminently successful strategy. Carter, said Sadat ruefully, "is making my job very difficult. This embarrasses me. What surprises me most is ignoring the importance of the Palestinian issue, the core and crux of the whole problem." To make amends, Carter added a brief, unscheduled stop in Aswan to meet with Sadat on the matter this week...
...long been a friend and admirer of Vice President Walter Mondale. He has expressed sympathy for the unemployed by his actions as well as his words: he is a director of both the National Alliance of Businessmen, a group that tries to encourage hiring of the hard-core unemployed, and of a special business committee formed last summer to promote the training and hiring of Viet Nam veterans. In a speech to Pittsburgh businessmen last January, he not only advocated more capital investment but also called for "selective economic actions or controls ... not popular with business...
...core of Sontag's argument is that photography is not an art: it is a language, a neutral medium. Its analogue is not painting but paint. "Out of language, one can make scientific discourse, bureaucratic memoranda, love letters, grocery lists, and Balzac's Paris. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures and Atget's Paris...
...madhouse' or that the theme of insanity has recently become a staple in literature, art, drama and film...Millions sense the pathology that pervades the air, but fail to understand its roots. These roots lie not in this or that political doctrine, still less in some mystical core of despair or isolation presumed to inhere in the 'human condition.' Nor do they lie in science, technology, or legitimate demands for social change. They are traceable, instead, to the uncontrolled, non-selective nature of our lunge into the future...into superindustrialism...