Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK CITY in 1971 there were 18 convictions for rape. Perhaps as many as 10,000 New York women were sexually abused that year in the most violent, degrading manner conceivable, and yet only 18 men could be found guilty. How could this happen? Superficially the blame lies with legal statutes (recently changed) which demanded "conclusive" corroborating evidence. But the true answer--fantastically complex, multi-faceted--can be found in Susan Brownmiller's portentous examination of rape, Against Our Will...
International Sage. Even then Toynbee had his critics, who accused him of romanticism, vagueness and even factual error. But he had become an international sage, like Einstein, Schweitzer or Bertrand Russell, who was asked for his opinion on all manner of subjects. A mild and white-haired figure, married to his longtime research assistant, Veronica Boulter (his 33-year first marriage ended in divorce in 1946), Toynbee frequently visited U.S. universities and once commented that the things he liked best about the U.S. were Bing Crosby and peanut butter. Not all his views were so benign. When...
...lively Orthodox Jewish family, and his narrative's interest turns not so much on whether David will escape his perils as on what he perceives with his wonderfully penetrating gaze. He sees, before anyone teaches him, the letters of two alphabets, Hebrew and English, and the intricate manner in which they relate. He sees his father, first as a vigorous, powerful man, respected by other Polish immigrants as the onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees the suddenly aged figure as a tired warrior...
...what is the most important achievement of this book, Rosen reveals the manner in which non-tonal music can supply both tension and the release of tension that many have criticized Schoenberg for destroying. "The saturation of musical space is Schoenberg's substitute for the tonic chord of the traditional musical language. The absolute consonance is a state of chromatic plenitude." As Rosen points out, Ewartung, one of Schoenberg's early works, ends with all the instruments of the orchestra playing accelerating chromatic scales up and down until a "state of chromatic plenitude" has been created. This state, according...
...statistics on how many crimes are prevented in this manner, but there are certainly quite a few." Cassidy says. Private handgun ownership can prevent crime when attackers are scared away or when the crime never occurs because the potential criminal fears his victim will be armed, he argues. Cassidy feels that without this deterrent effect crime rates might rise rather than fall after a handgun...