Word: documental
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Immense Virtue. A problem Carter can forget about is the party platform. The document agreed upon by the 153-member drafting committee was a monument to sweet unity. At 15,000 words it was half the size of the 1972 model. Missing were provocative stands on homosexuals' rights, abortion, school busing and legalization of pot that helped undermine George McGovern four years ago. The surviving planks were carefully planed, with the consent of all the factions represented, to fit Carter's design. The finished product is undramatic, but has the virtue of being offensive to few and acceptable...
Most residents are doomed to obscure jobs in Johannesburg, where they must face apartheid constantly and always carry the "reference book" that Soweto-born Poet Mtshali calls "the document of my existence." These passbooks−which must be produced, on threat of jail, whenever a policeman demands one−include photographs, place of residence, employer, taxes paid and special curfew privileges if any. The average black salary in Johannesburg is $140 a month, only slightly more than the cost of living for a family of five in the box houses of Soweto. Average white salaries, in contrast, are at least...
...Document, Wallace...
...publication date appears too clever by half, almost coinciding with completion of the presidential primaries and a still faintly possible last-minute "draft Humphrey movement." But Education is no campaign document. It is more an apologia, a mea culpa for the Nixon trauma that Humphrey believes he could have spared the nation, a cry for understanding of a tragic flaw in character that prevented him from doing...
...Document, Wallace...