Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filing a complaint, but many women respond that they rarely feel emotionally ready to negotiate with an authority figure who clearly has the academic upper hand. Stephen R. Lundeen, senior tutor at Dunster House, points out that often advisers will argue, "Look, this is the real world. That's life, you have to learn to cope with it." Lundeen says he usually tries to stay out of it, referring the problem to Walzer...
...play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash. In the battle between Arlene...
...most people. Some sociologists would blame environment, others individual psychology for turning a kid into a killer. But Americans have not yet decided what to do with the criminal. Getting Out explores not only evil but the failures of the American system to prepare an inmate for a life beyond bars. Tautly written and brilliantly acted, Getting Out vividly breaks free of the insidious revived camp that plagues much of New York theater this year...
Throughout his article Mr. Feinberg refers to the value added tax as "regressive," as opposed to the "progressive" income tax. These labels are, technically exactly correct. The problem is that Mr. Feinberg neglected to indicate that these terms have different meanings in economics than in everyday life...
...easy to apply technical terms such as "progressive" or "regressive" taxes to everyday life. The value-added tax will force poorer people to pay more taxes while relieving giant corporations of much of their own tax burden. That's not theory, it's fact. To say that equitable tax laws create a "self-defeating system" is ridiculous. As my article pointed out, legislators can restructure America's taxes to provide incentives for savings and investments without forcing wealthy tax-payers to leave the United States. The elimination of interest-rate ceilings on bank savings accounts or the establishment tax credits...