Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very tantalizing--or is it? Such a ridiculous attempt to flee, rather than confront, the unequivocal fact of death is merely one more manifestation, claims David Hendin, of this single remaining taboo; a taboo being bombarded, however, by an army of books, articles, monographs and courses on the subject. Hendin calls his contribution "A realistic look at the medical and emotional aspects of death." It is an unpretentious, informative and honestly sensitive confrontation with some eyebrow-raising facts...
...major figure of 52 per cent of blacks at Harvard on the dean's list compared to 82 per cent of all other ethnics still stands). There has been surprisingly little attention drawn to his elitist model. Most criticisms of Kilson's analysis are, in essence, attempts to flee from analysis while ideologizing the flight. They dwindle into psychoanalytic amateurism--futile attempts to explain the content of the articles by the disposition of the author via a crude sociology of knowledge. Such responses hold no intellectual weight and only tricialize the issues. The past decade has hopefully taught us that...
When U.S. District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott abruptly ended the 35-month confinement of Army Lieut. William L. Calley Jr. last week, the judge observed that he saw "no likelihood" that Calley would flee. Why should he? Under the terms of his sentence, he was comfortably confined to his $111-a-month, two-bedroom apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., where he passed the months watching television, building model airplanes, boning up on oceanography and ancient history through correspondence courses, growing vegetables and flowers in his backyard, and talking with his pet mynah bird. Calley, 30, has also enjoyed almost...
...David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation beginning on or about Jan. 31. In the weeks before doomsday, some of the Children of God appeared in red sackcloth at United Nations Plaza in New York City warning Americans to flee. A good many of the Children took their own advice, removing themselves also from the scrutiny of New York State's attorney general, whose charity frauds bureau last month issued a 23-page report on the sect and recommended that its questionable activities come "under the umbrella of state...
With artillery and rocket attacks now almost daily occurrences, foreigners have begun to flee the city. British and Australian dependents have already departed. A gathering of French residents at their embassy's cultural center ended in fistfights over the limited supply of evacuation air tickets. Rumors that the insurgents had begun infiltrating the capital swept through the city's crowded slums, terrifying the populace...