Word: existences
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined precipitously, and with it a broad range of viewpoints and verbal freedom. The principle of a partisan, local, fractious, extremely diverse and decentralized press--a principle which survived from the first scurrilous debate on Federalism, through the Civil War, and into the 20th Century--has largely ceased to exist. Taking up the slack from the decline in newspapers, the nationally prominent magazines appeal to large readerships by cultivating only very vague political inclinations. Today we tend to think of the press's past partisanship in its worst aspects--sensationalism and news demagoguery--but fundamentally this was reflective...
...believe men like Editor Herman Obermayer really exist! After the debasement of a rape attack itself, he wants to humiliate the woman even more by printing her name in the paper [Jan. 30]. Women are just beginning to talk about and deal with rape; he'll set us back 20 years...
...sharpest exchange centered on the legality of the Israeli settlements. Two weeks ago, Vance not only declared that the U.S. considered the settlements illegal and an obstacle to peace but also added that they "should not exist." Al though his comments reflected longstanding U.S. policy, Vance's words were a bit blunter than usual, and they made Begin see red. Summoning reporters, the Premier read what was surely the toughest official Israeli blast at Washington since Golda Meir rejected the Rogers peace plan eight years ago. The statement expressed "regret and protest" about the Vance remark, insisted that...
...clothing, bricks, pieces of tin roof and spent shells. When the rockets came, the people fled. A few hundred have turned up in Harar, a day's walk away, where they took shelter in warehouses, their bundles of belongings arranged in a circle around each family. The rest exist in the bush, watching the kites (scavenging hawks) circle their villages. Last week the Ethiopian air force dropped leaflets telling the villagers it was safe to return home. Most declined...
Further, it has been shown that the SATs have little or no correlation with the future academic or professional success of minority students. How could SATs possibly test the verbal capabilities of a Third World student, when many of the words used in the test do not exist in his or her environment? Words such as canopy, blender, pantry or perambulator are common for the average white student. But they are not familiar to minority students. A Third World student's depth of assimilation into a white society cannot be the only judge of future performance...