Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The scene was reminiscent of an unemployment office. But the thousands of grim-faced men and women who lined up in the office of the Massachusetts revenue department in downtown Boston last week were there to give money, not take it. Marveled one tax examiner: "It's the first...
Such criticisms sound awfully familar and the licensing controversy could serve as a blueprint for many others. "Free flow" is the classic liberal ideology, the legitimizer of social theory, democratic constitutions, and neoclassical economics. The most striking intellectual break with this ideology was Marx, who saw a one-way flow...
Only a short time ago, such applause would have been unthinkable. When Deukmejian took office in January of 1983, the recession had eaten away what little remained in the till; earlier, billions in state revenues had been tapped to bail out local governments in the wake of Proposition 13, the...
Nobody ever wanted to be a writer more than John Steinbeck; as a student he would take to the woods with pen, ink bottle, and the ledger books borrowed from his father-treasurer of Monterey County-to scribble his first short stories. With a stubbornness that bordered on menace, the...
Mr. Louis is correct when he states that many Americans respond with. "Well, what about the Russians?" when faced with criticism directed at this country. His attitude seems to be that we should let the Russians worry about criticizing their own government the same as we criticize our own for...