Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Know-Nothings and their many later imitators. Immigrant groups themselves battled with one another, caught up in ethnic feuds. Above all, the American labor movement was the most violent in the world. From the 1870s to the 1930s, bloody battles between strikers and company cops or state militia were frequent. Labor leaders often deliberately used violence to dramatize the workers' plight-and, in time, they succeeded. On the fringes of the movement were some odd secret organizations, including the Molly Maguires, a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike in an attempt to win better...
...more fiercely later. At times the U.S. displays a kind of false prudery about violence to the point where, in the words of Psychiatrist Robert Coles, "almost anything related to forcefulness and the tensions between people is called violent." While this attitude (including Dr. Wertham's frequent blasts at anything from military toys to Batman) is plainly unrealistic, there is no denying that a gruesome violence on screens and in print is threatening to get out of hand. According to one theory, such vicarious experience of violence is healthy because it relieves the viewer's own aggressions...
...than white journalists. Chicago's white dailies had attempted stories on the city's Negro slums, but the Defender's Betty Washington was able to produce a much better account after going to live in the slums for several weeks. Charges of police brutality -the most frequent complaint-are commonplace on Page One. And militancy-within bounds-seems to pay off. By concentrating on civil rights, the bouncy In Sepia Dallas has raised circulation from 5,000 to an estimated 22,500 in three years; by contrast, the bland Dallas Express has slipped from...
...most frequent complaints about the public schools were that...
...Schoenberg is in reality quite a different piece. Written slightly over a decade before the Sessions Quintet, the Trio is possibly even more severe in idiom. Where the Sessions is expansive, the Schoenberg is concentrated, pithy, intense. Contrasts are much more frequent and stark, with ferocity and elegy following in close succession in a kind of mosaic sound. Schoenberg's use of effects such as tremolo, col legno and harmonics is absolutely chilling...