Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide more and better jobs for blacks and to open chain-store shelves to black products. Tall and sensuously attractive, Jackson is the kind of leader who suggests both a dignity of bearing in his brooding dedication to his cause and a sense of brotherly warmth in his casual Levi's, boots and open sport shirts. He possesses what he himself matter-of-factly accepts as charisma, and he inspires devotion among a wide range of followers...
Premonitory Power. Educated at the Sorbonne by Claude Levi-Strauss and armed with an encyclopedic historical knowledge, Renata Adler refuses to allow her writing to slant. The Susan Sontagalongs land at Hanoi or at the movies, seeking a geometry for their preformed conclusions. The Mary McCarthyites seem to go against the grain simply because it is there. Adler maintains a gyroscopic balance-and gets the work done. That work, at its best, has a premonitory power. The best article is last, a report on the National New Politics Convention in Chicago. Gouts of words, pollutions of principle, corrosions of politics...
...started a surge of human overpopulation that threatens to overwhelm the earth's resources. At the same time, technological man is bewitched by the dangerous illusion that he can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with scant regard for the iron laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete certain toxins that kill at a distance?that is, they poison the flour they...
...square inch of territory conquered in the 1967 war, an impressive number of Israelis feel that some concessions are necessary. Most political doves, however, are reluctant to speak up. They are all too well aware of the controversy such talk invariably provokes. Early last year, for example, when Premier Levi Eshkol suggested that Israel might not retain some Arab-populated areas of the West Bank, an awesome political uproar followed; some of Eshkol's friends claim that it contributed to the fatal heart attack that struck him soon afterward. Deputy Premier Yigael Allon was also criticized sharply by Israeli...
...special travel permits. The government established an Arab Affairs department, but it included no Arabs and few Arabic-speaking advisers. One high official went so far as to announce publicly that Arabs were to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water." The situation changed drastically after 1963, when Levi Eshkol became Premier. Eshkol gradually ended all restrictions and made no move to re-impose them even during...