Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dubin's descent is painful to watch but thoroughly absorbing, for his struggle assumes heroic dimensions. He is smart enough to bear the responsibility for his anguish and strong enough to fight...
...scare stories are based on phony evidence or plain prejudice. When asked to back up his claim that "thousands and thousands of acres are being bought up," California State Assemblyman John Thurman cited one "foreign" farm in California; in fact, it is owned by an American of Iranian descent. Under questioning, Tom Harkin admitted that foreign land buying "has not yet affected Iowa...
...adorned many buildings in Chinatown. Only one edifice sported the red and yellow People's Republic flag. Discounting the police, the streets and sidewalks played host to a smaller crowd than usual, while the normal bustle was muted. Most of the people out on the streets were of Chinese descent. They tended to stop and stand fairly often--to watch the police and one another...
Twenty-six Amherst undergraduates representing La Causa, a campus organization for students of Hispanic descent, ended their three-day occupation of Amherst's student center yesterday...
...State, trussed up in a chair and holds the weap on to the dignitary's head, while the pair reach a tongue-blistering stalemate on the accommodations of power vs. the demands of conscience. Two ideas have entered Doctorow's play on a double ladder of descent. Ennui, anomie - the catatonic state of buried lives - was summed up by Kierkegaard when he called despair "the sickness unto death...