Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When The Confessions of Nat Turner was published twelve years ago, William Styron was pilloried by some blacks and liberals. How, their attack ran, dare a white Southerner appropriate the mind and soul of a black slave? Sophie's Choice, Styron's first novel since then, may prompt a similar ambush. What business has an American Wasp writing about the European, chiefly Jewish, victims of the Holocaust? If taken seriously, such questions are dangerous. Areas of the imagination can be fenced off for certain groups alone only at everyone's peril. The question is not whether Styron...
...Amway salespeople can earn more than $100,000 a year, the majority, who may be housewives, retirees or even doctors or lawyers, probably make $50 to $150 a month. Though the result is a many-layered sales organization, it differs significantly from unscrupulous pyramid sales schemes like Glenn ("Dare to Be Great") Turner's Florida-based cosmetics operation, in which participants earned money by signing up new distributors rather than by selling the company's products...
...dominant subject at the conference, he made no headway at all in pushing his peers into backing the calling of a constitutional convention to require a balanced budget. A U.P.I, poll showed that 26 Governors were also opposed to thus amending the Constitution. Brown did not even dare introduce a resolution to endorse his new pet project. He did not want to risk the same kind of setback he had suffered the week before when his own California legislature rejected a call for such a convention...
...Though Khomeini enjoys overwhelming support among the 30 million Shi'ites who make up about 90% of Iran's population, he is taking no chances on the outcome of the referendum. Each voter will be required to put his name and address on his ballot. Those who dare to vote red could well be providing the Ayatullah with a readymade enemies list...
...Middle East and other areas, nor can we tolerate the Cubans of the Orient to go swashbuckling in Laos, Kampuchea or even in the Chinese border areas. Now some people in the world are afraid of offending them, even if they do something terrible. These people wouldn't dare take action against them." So said China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing last week, puffing on a Panda cigarette as he aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave...