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Word: expectance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining willfully incognizant of the fact of black violence, liberals have practiced a subtle racism. Silberman accepts this phenomenon, and explains it. Violence has been the leitmotif of black history in this country; violence maintained slavery and the racial caste system that came after it. One would naturally expect that the reflex of violence has been, until recently, sublimated in fantasy and controlled by black authority figures in the heterogeneous black community. Now, with the opening of the society at large to blacks, those who remain in the black communities are uniformly poor and unsuccessful; moreover, the process of sublimation...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...will want me?" But in his victory speech he alluded to what he called "a new campaign." Mrs. Uzielli merely smiled at Widower Carey, who has twelve children. Said Carey later: "This one is not going to be quite so much uphill as I might expect." Said his chief political strategist, David Garth: "This is one campaign I haven't been asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Campaign of the Heart | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads her advice and, finding a lady lounging happily in her tent, yanks off her ring and steals seven kisses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knight Errant | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...much-criticized defense remains much-injured, so you can expect to see a lot of unfamiliar numbers in there today...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Cambridge and the MBTA both have a choice to make. If the citizens and the city council are expecting the MBTA to extend the line all the way to Rte. 128, something it is not financially equipped to do today, they should probably think again. But if the MBTA plans to extend the Red Line to the Alewife area, it can not ignore citizens' moral and legal claims. The MBTA may be gambling with all its chips if it does not perform a supplementary EIS before a federal district court orders one. Cambridge citizens are gambling another EIS would reject...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

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