Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many closet homosexuals watched with mixed emotions while young gays for the first time fought back during a violent police raid on a Manhattan gay bar in 1969. "I hoped they wouldn't get hurt, but I thought, if this succeeds I'll have to make choices. I didn't...
But what sort of liberation? The question was put poignantly by a U.S. nun who asked in one group discussion, "Do we have to opt for revolution?" The theologians' answer is yes-although they hasten to add that revolution covers a broad range of options, not all of them...
Teamsters today are almost literally everywhere. They include brewers in Memphis, drawbridge operators in New York City, pipeline workers in Alaska, telephone answering-service employees in Boston. In Chicago, Teamster locals take up two full columns in the Yellow Pages of the telephone directory; they represent armored-car drivers, newspaper...
One of the worries the nation cannot shake is that the quickening economic recovery will be accompanied by-or perhaps cause-a rekindling of inflation. Last week that fear became considerably more chilling. The Labor Department reported that the Wholesale Price Index jumped at a startling compound annual rate of...
E. L. Doctocow's Ragtime is historical fiction, like Johnny Tremain. And while I realize that in some circles this is nothing short of blasphemy, I think it's as good a book--the same wide-eyed, burrowed-under-the-covers-with-secret-flashlight fascination, the same wonderfulness. Doctorow's...