Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People obviously open up to Howard, sometimes at their peril. Count the bodies garroted with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where...
...scrambled eggs. Wives and children have been put at smaller tables. Out behind the inn, a dozen Mississippi state highway patrolmen are clustered around the trunk of a car, joking and passing out bullets like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they are going to shoot skeet. "Yeah, down at the skeet march," adds another. Every skeet one finds this hilarious...
...some new mindless horror. But perhaps for that very reason, books such as .44 might actually be a public service, a means of measuring, by their very popularity, the current level of savagery in American society. For the sake of the Republic, let's hope not--for at last count, .44 was selling very well indeed...
...state surplus, Ovrom based his new budget on the assumption that Monrovia would have to go it alone. Accordingly, many of the townspeople believe - understandably - that city hall is crying wolf. Concedes Ovrom: "Sure, a couple programs we cut may be restored, but we just can't count on much...
There was a time when Jarvis would get up in the middle of the night to practice his speeches in front of the living-room lamps. Now he can count on the attention of his audiences. Groups in 40 states want the feisty Jarvis to give them a hand in promoting tax reduction measures. "I am going to help out in some other places," he says with atypical understatement. Batten down the hatches-Howard Jarvis is going national...