Word: diversionism
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Thus the diversion of some (not all) resources back to foot-patrols would not place the populace at any increased risk and could aid significantly the sense of order and safety in a neighborhood. The emphasis on mobility, as Charles Silberman pointed out in Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice "keeps patrol...
The press secretaries had a photo opportunity with the President He told them a couple of old movie stories ("As you can see," joked Reagan, "I'm heavily into anecdotes"). They loved it. Then Speakes invited them to brief the press once again. To a man, they showed their...
But Bagnold added another dimension, which she once spoke of in a 1956 interview: "How boldly we waste our time-when we know there is so little of it. How we know nothing-and would rather garden than think of it. How the slightest diversion makes one fling off the...
The machines crop up in the lives of youngsters even before they enter school-and sometimes before they learn to walk or talk-in the guise of such siliconized gadgetry as Little Professor and Speak & Spell. With a few presses of the button, these computerized games produce flashing lights, squealing...
Raskin: I would say there is a direct relationship between the faltering of the American economy and the retrenchment of American students in terms of activism. The people are obsessively concerned--and rightfully so, I know that's true for myself--about having enough money to pay for college and...