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...fetuses on one side, women's corpses bloody from illegal abortions on the other. It is a noisy scene, hymns vs. chanted slogans, with both sides resorting to bullhorns to get above the din (and the police finally adding their loudspeakers). The task of the police is first to detach the two groups, ordering those who do not wish to be arrested to move away. That brings all but the most embedded pro-choicers out of the milling near the doors. Then the arrests begin -- 373 of them in Cypress on the Thursday before Easter...
Unfortunately, Fass and Wren seem to detach themselves from this love-hate relationship--and distance the audience at the same time...
HAVING GONE, like a lot of Black Harvard students, to a private, mostly white school, my past experiences--and maybe the influence of 1970s pop psychology--inclined me to believe as a freshman that I could detach myself from the race issue through my positive self-image, pride in my background and determination to dismiss any affronts as testimony to the shortcomings of the perpetrator...
...successful performer, you have to detach yourself from the money," says Kilburn. Others disagree, though, like Mike Babinchak, who says that "there's a direct correlation between how well you play and how much you make...
Wanda: That was in the '70s, Ralph. We are way beyond that now. Many people tried to detach sex from love back then, but that was because society told them they couldn't have one without the other. Now that society has relaxed...