Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitter Aftertaste," the title of TIME'S gloss on student unrest in Germany [April 26], describes what at least one German conservative had in his mouth after reading it. You assert that the students had "found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured...
...moral sense, violence is not power but an act of despair, an admission of failure to find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...
...this usually amounts to what Penologist Howard Gill calls "birdshot penology." All the bands, baseball, radios and rodeos cannot gloss the fact that real rehabilitation is rare. Caging still outranks curing; short funds dilute short-stay effectiveness. And prison job-training is a scandal. Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
Plethora of Parodies. All three schools have been around long enough -U.S.C., the nation's oldest, was founded in 1929-to have developed more or less distinctive styles of their own. U.C.L.A. favors and encourages free-form experimentation. Moviemakers at rival U.S.C. try to put a high professional gloss on their products and are very Hollywood-conscious-so much so that one professor recently complained about the plethora of student parodies of Bonnie and Clyde. N.Y.U. students, by contrast, tend to turn out deliberately rough-hewn works with the grainy look of neorealistic, cinema-verite documentaries-a reflection, perhaps...
...result is the "Motown sound" -basically the Negro rhythm-and-blues style that has captured a vast white audience in recent years, but now stamped into slick model lines and given the hard chrome gloss that Gordy used to fit into autos. "This is just something we feel and therefore produce," says Gordy. "We've never stopped to think about...