Word: levins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER SINCE rich, white Jennifer Dawn Levin was raped and murdered in New York's Central Park by a prepschool "friend," the city's tabloids have kept her story on the front page...
...natural while female sexuality is dirty. Any time a woman fails to repress that sexuality she is putting candy in front of a baby and must accept the consequences. Perhaps that is why the press continually harps on Chambers' "charming good-looks." Overcome by this handsome young man, Ms. Levin simply lost control and followed Chambers to the park, sealing her own fate...
Other speakers included: State Sen. GeorgeBachrach (D-Watertown), Professor of Law Alan M.Dershowitz, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G.Cox, Mark Levin of the National Conference forSoviet Jewry in Washington, and Lynn Davidson ofthe Helsinki Commission...
What is this perversion of freedom about? In an enthralling series of articles on the Levin killing, Samuel G. Freedman of the New York Times observed that rich parents and poor parents are alike in their promiscuous freedom giving. The poor let their children hustle for subsistence. The rich buy them off. It is as if parents are afraid to touch the people they created; and in a sense this may be so. By the time parents are old enough to have adolescent children, they often are undergoing second-adolescent turmoils of their own. The elder teenager beholds the younger...
...that the basic balance of forces sustaining the country seems to have been abandoned by the American family, which is a naturally closer community and potentially a happier one. The consequences of excessive family freedom need not be as dramatic as in the Levin killing. Little murders are committed daily in homes where Mom and Dad sit planted in front of pieces of paper or The Cosby Show, while the children lie still as dolls on their beds and gaze at ceiling fixtures, like stations in a dream. See how free everybody is. The only things missing are the essentials...