Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Hannah Green dealt with the anxieties about death, sex and insanity that bother many adolescents. The novel, which explores the efforts of an adolescent girl to free herself from a destructive fantasy world, found a wide following, largely because it evoked such sympathy with the schizophrenic heroine's anxieties...
...sacrificing his human rights campaign to get the treaty accepted. Mexican President José López Portillo refused to attend the ceremonies, in fact, at least partly because he objected to being seen with some of the Latino "gorillas" who were on hand. But Carter, if smiling, dealt quite sternly with some of the autocratic leaders whom he flatly accused of violating human rights. "Magnifico hombre, de veras," murmured Chilean President Augusto Pinochet as he emerged from the presidential lecture, even though Carter had urged him to speed up trials and release more prisoners...
...refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...
...report dealt a devastating and possibly fatal blow to Beame's primary chances. Most of his rivals quickly jumped on the mayor. Said Koch: "Beame was running the city like a second-class candy store." Typically low-keyed, Cuomo called it "sad" that Beame's lengthy civic career should culminate in such charges...
...find only 17 political prisoners on the list; the rest are charged with common crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center suspects are held...