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...they are not to be found all in one location. Of course, some whites are more outwardly pleasant than others to black people, but I judge a man by his actions, not his appearance. I could care less if his smile is wide or if he's in the habit of regularly saying "hello...

Author: By Sid Williams, | Title: A Few Words Before I Go | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

This murderous preeminence, fostered by the nation's longstanding habit of violence, occurs against a background of street crime, political assassination and an almost obsessive violence in movies and television. It has led many behavioral scientists to begin talking about a national "crisis of violence." In the U.S., warns Psychiatrist Thomas Bittker, "violence is practiced as if it were productive." It may have been so for the Stone Age hunter of mammoths, but in the era of H-bombs it is not only non-productive but distinctly suicidal. Man has become so dangerous to himself that his continued existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Psychology of Murder | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...feel compelled to disagree that thinking has become a bad habit [Essay, "The New Cult of Madness," March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1972 | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...people, broke his arm and all his fingers. Then they sent their girls over to tell us they wanted to fight us. Now, hell, I've been around. I was in gangs in the '50s. I was a junkie for 15 years before I kicked the habit. So we went over there with bats and clubs. But Jesus Christ, these kids were armed. They had 17 rifles staring down from the rooftops. They're organized. It's a whole new thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Southeast Side Story | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...publications have been brainwashing the Japanese people with all manner of imagined poison about me." The latest toxin: a suggestion that her fiance, a Spanish banker, was connected with the Mafia. "This really is too much," she blazed. "At last I have decided to do something about the bad habit." Dewi didn't know how much damages to ask for the correction of such habits, she told newsmen on her arrival in Tokyo, but "my expenses are not low, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1972 | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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