Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...
...That was all politics, "Mayor Vellucci says now, as though that is a game he does not play. But Vellucci, a veteran of the city council since 1955, was in the fray with the rest. Whenever alliances shifted, there was a new man administering the city's affairs...
Discard's comeback appeared to confirm the wisdom of his election tactic ?namely, to stay above the political fray. One reason for his break with Chirac last year was Giscard's refusal to join the Gaullist leader, who then was the country's Premier, in a concerted public assault on the left. Giscard reasoned that attacks would only weld the Communists and Socialists together; if left alone, he calculated, the parties would be torn apart by internal contradictions. His analysis is proving correct...
...someone looking down on the action from a second-floor window. The person does not look happy. A woman in the crowd notices the observer too, and waves, shouting a cheery hello. Instantly, the face disappears from the window. The woman below shrugs her shoulders and returns to the fray...
That record does not satisfy many critics. "Lawyers still hold themselves out as above the public fray and capable of self-regulation," says Green. "It's the same argument put out by meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms...