Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MUGGING by MORTON HUNT 488 pages. Atheneum...
...master the world around him. It is, in short, magic, the earliest of man's religious responses. The world's oldest art works, the primitive animal paintings in the cave at Lascaux in southwestern France, for example, were Stone Age man's magical invocation of success in the hunt. The astrology so many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller" and "heathen" from "dweller...
...Alexander Helmer is the beginning of this remarkable study of crime and punishment in the U.S., 1964-72. The book has been minutely researched, gravely considered and artfully composed for maximum popular effect. To typify an era of ghetto violence, Author Morton Hunt (The Affair) aptly takes as his central instance the commonest of ghetto crimes, an actual attack performed by a gang of teenage drug addicts...
...Hunt describes the trial as a morose circus. The prosecutor is a plodding Percheron pitted against a couple of clownish counsels for the defense. One of them addresses the jury: "I leave thk with you, and I know that when you consider this case from all of its aspects every part of the statements, and the beatings, and the lack of will, and lack of intellect-do you think that these boys, lacking practically any education (that's another item to be considered by you)-I say that the resistance here was overcome by force...
...five Council liberals embarked on a nation-wide search for a new City Manager, sifting through hundreds of applications. After six months and more than $8000 in City funds, the hunt has narrowed down to two candidates: Howard C. (Neil) Peterson, the white former City Administrator of New Brunswich, N.J., and James Johnson, the black Deputy City Manager of Kansas City, Mo, and the former City Manager of Compton, Calif...