Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEST GERMANY. The greatest fear at the moment in Bonn comes not from assassins but anarchist-terrorist bands of kidnapers, who might try to spirit off Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Both Schmidt and senior Cabinet officers could be held for release of some of the more than 100 hard-core anarchists in prison around the country. To prevent that from happening, a special security group provides 300 bodyguards for leading federal officials, their offices and homes. Trained in the use of firearms and hand-to-hand combat as well as criminal psychology and identification, officers sit outside the door to Schmidt...
Rosovsky selected the seven task forces, on topics ranging from core curriculum to educational resources, last spring. They each are composed of six faculty members, two students, and an administrative staff assistant...
...three months before she takes her own life. The really scary, chilling thing about this voice is its profound bitterness--a sort of challenge to all comers that commands sympathy at the same time that it defies it, that attracts as it repels, that bores directly at some common core of human experience with a drill of inhuman strength...
...scenes shot in a New York city welfare center in the winter of 1973. There is no commentary, ever, just bits and pieces of the small world of a large office, an office that is a microcosm of this country's welfare system: not in terms of hard-core issues but in conveying the experience of administering state assistance and of getting it (or trying to.) And the experience is an important subject in itself: because it's difficult, almost impossible, for even the best social worker to make judgments about a person's eligibility...
...depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while the Red Sox bask in the incredible, exhilarating core of an ocean of energy, the high of a pennant race and maybe more...