Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only in America is it possible to elect politicians who propose less government spending while allowing one candidate (North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms) to spend $6.7 million on his campaign. Enough...
...wild West/ where two sweet dudes are dead/ and no more need be said." Cyra McFadden, whose book The Serial lampoons the insecure laid-back life in rich Marin County north of San Francisco, observed: "I had a good time with the kooks. Now I find I'm less and less amused, and more fearful." Usually ebullient Columnist Herb Caen mourned: "What is it about San Francisco...
...edge of the Bible Belt and have fairly conservative fundamentalists in quite substantial numbers. Kids who find the so-called liberalism of the mainline churches not to their liking already have available alternatives." Where a religious or secular structure with strong values exists, the cults have less opportunity to make converts. Over the years, they tend to wax and wane, subject to a harsh winnowing process, a religious equivalent of the survival of the fittest. Established church leaders like to cite a prophecy in the Book of Acts: "Refrain from these men [the early Christians] and let them alone...
...seeking God in a secular world. In that search for God, it is all too easy to blunder into the arms of Satan instead." Added the Vatican news paper L'Osservatore Romano: "Christianity is a religion of life, not of death." West Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung philosophized less cosmically: "It was not just a symptom of America or its system's shortcomings. Mystic sects and pseudoreligious groups exist in this part of the world as well and in worrisome numbers. The Jonestown deaths pose the vital question of whether in our modern way of life our institutions...
...this unprecedented outburst of free expression, which was seemingly confined to the country's capital. One poster went up saying that informal exchanges between foreigners and the masses should be ended for the sake of national unity. Gradually, the crowds at "democracy wall" grew smaller and less demonstrative. Yet even if there were no more public challenges to Maoist orthodoxy, foreign observers were left with two distinct impressions. One was that Peking's outbreak of poster politics had been tacitly authorized by the leadership of the Communist Party. The other was that the pragmatic policies of Teng...