Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relieved of their burden by a few admiring bystanders. Naturally, they begin wondering what those days (or, more properly, nights) must have been like, and in a transformation familiar to any science fiction devotee, they're whisked back to a '20s downtown speakeasy. The ensuing plot developments seem to exist either to show off more clubs like the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom, and Small's Paradise, or to introduce more golden oldies...
...Thus those who would be most prone to write of their war experiences never saw Vietnam: theirs is a literature of protest. A great silence lies over the fighting man's tour in Vietnam. It is not that we must write tragedies to know that they exist, but in a society which produces books on almost any conceivable subject, the silence on Vietnam is strange and disconcerting...
Whatever the cost, the need for control is obvious. In addition to the 2 million man-made chemical compounds that already exist, scientists develop an additional 25,000 new ones annually. Of this huge total, at least 1,000 a year are put into production and thus into the environment...
...accordance with federal definitions of their being a minority group because of "economic and social disadvantage." Yet current U.S. Census figures show that Asian-Americans today penetrate all income levels and, in general, have attained an above average standard of living. The barriers to equality which did indeed exist in the past for this group have largely vanished. That the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare fails to recognize this change in circumstances is little reason for Harvard to extend the subscription to archaic definitions for the mere sake of bureaucratic consistency. And to insist on special considerations...
...examples of women's achievement that we learn about in school serve only to reinforce the notion that these are all that exist so that not until the recent wave of scholarship about women have we begun to be aware of the rich heritage of women's activities that has been erased from history. So, Virginia Woolf had no idea how many women had been writing when she imagined for the fate of Shakespeare's "wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith" who, like her brother, loved the theater and wanted to act and write...