Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestion. For too long the average American has seen the ghetto as an abstract horror of human existence. For too long, the average American has bought off "his own sense of guilt" by trying to alleviate poverty through his tax money. It is time to eliminate government as a cure all for the problems of the Negro. Government has tried, and failed. It is time to reassert our humanity and take private, individual action in the race crisis. Let one human being help another, and let one government help another. We, as people, have shirked our duty long enough...
...matter was too serious for posing. Biographer Warner maintains an apparently deliberate reticence on the subject, but as clearly as the reader can determine from her patchy discussion, White was never able to accept homosexuality wholeheartedly. Nor could he really reject it. His solution was solitude, and his cure for solitude was Merlyn's: learning things and teaching...
...sensitive to the conflict between formal arrangements which will extract the House's pound of flesh from its senior and junior associates and the goal of such schemes--energizing informal relationships. The most fascinating question before Ford's new committee will be whether structural changes are adequate to cure the ills of the Houses...
...Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome last November to look into the causes of banditry. Italian Interior Minister Paolo Taviani, who paid a hurried visit to the island this month, reported that the only cure for banditry is "massive industrialization" and "a radical transformation of the island's pastoral mentality." If that is so, it may take the Sardinians at least another generation to rid their island of the terror...
...Backers of liberalized trade compare today's proposed restrictions to the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which by lifting import duties to record levels prompted reprisals abroad that helped to cut U.S. exports by 66% during the Depression. "The protectionists are peddling medicine more likely to kill than cure," warns William M. Roth, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations. "The U.S. would be responsible for initiating a major trade...