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Word: fails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shocking and depressing. But as one of the thousands of people who work in the juvenile corrections system, I find it distressing to see an article like this making our work seem so futile. We do care and we do take over where parents and the community fail in their dealings with youthful offenders. And the day we give up on them is the day when juvenile crime will skyrocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1977 | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...wild. Says Bard: "The looting had a quality of madness. I cannot believe that they cleaned out a store of prayer shawls and Bibles." Adds Ernest Dichter, a noted behavioral psychologist: "It was just like Lord of the Flies. People resort to savage behavior when the brakes of civilization fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: LOOKING FOR A REASON | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...could a power system that many people thought was made fail-safe after the Northeast's great 1965 blackout plunge New York City into helpless darkness once again? It may take months of investigation to get the complete answer. But at week's end, an outline of the falling-domino sequence of failures that led to the total collapse had begun to emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: WHY THE LIGHTS WENT OUT | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...nose and cheeks. But as SLE progresses, severe inflammation may occur in the joints, hair fall out, and sores appear in the mouth, nose, throat and vagina. Unless lupus is somehow contained-or undergoes spontaneous remission-the heart and blood vessels may be damaged. The kidneys could begin to fail, and even the central nervous system can be affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sign of the Wolf | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...different. Herzog's view of the Spaniards' abuse of the Indians they found in Latin America is offered through juxtaposition of images--four chained Indians struggle under the burden of a gaily-decorated sedan chair while its occupant looks on impassively; the monk impassively kills two Indians who fail to understand his efforts to proseletize. But the filmmaker's views are rarely more articulated than this, as if he accepts the conquistadors' brutality because that is the way it was. A great deal is left to the observer, so much so that the film often descends into an aimless drifting...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: In Search of El Dorado | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

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