Word: grimness
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...redefinition; some might suggest a resurrection. The successful defense of a black male celebrity by a black male lawyer in Los Angeles, cheered as it was by many African Americans, was an exception to a bleak pattern. Last week the Washington-based Sentencing Project, which in 1990 broke the grim news that 1 out of every 4 black men ages 20 to 29 was in jail, paroled or on probation, delivered a chilling update: the estimate...
...genocidal plague cooked up by the cia. That is the flip side of the fear that makes many white women clutch their purses when a black man in a business suit gets on the elevator. Perhaps because of their minority status, most blacks who live with these grim realities have learned to keep their fears in perspective most of the time. They know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves to distinguish between cynical appeals to their sense of racial injustice and valid pleas for the unjustly accused. What infuriates them is that whites often fail...
...dynamic. Secular realists reply to the idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...
Thank you for your chilling depiction of environmental disaster in Siberia. As a student in Magadan, Siberia, I witnessed leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior...
Alan Keyes' one-word cure-all for America's problems probably sounds a lot like your grandmother's: marriage. On a recent summer morning in Oxnard, California, while towheaded children scampered in the sun, a grim-faced Keyes lectured their parents. "The No. 1 challenge of our life as a people," he railed from the podium, "is restoring the principle of the two-parent, marriage-based family." The moms and dads in the audience applauded. "And how do you get people to marry?" he asked, a grandfatherly smile creeping across his face. "Nagging has a lot to do with...