Word: marc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year alone there were more than 40 violating states. From Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay to Guinea, Uganda, Spain, Iran and the Soviet Union, torture has become a common instrument of state policy practiced against almost anyone ruling cliques see as a threat to their power. Torture, says Marc Schreiber, director of the U.N.'s Commission on Human Rights, "is a phenomenon of our times...
Francois Truffaut's touching film, the Wild Child, has made the subsequent story well-known: a rising doctor, Jean-Marc Itard, took Victor in hand when other specialists gave up and tried unsuccessfully for five taxing years to teach the deaf-mute boy to use language. Apart from Itard's own account of his tribulations, no one has since returned to determine exactly why the wild child experiment failed. This is what Lane, a psychological from Northeastern, sets out to do. And beyond some amusing and touching anecdotes, he has produced much less a narrative history than a highly academic...
...that just purr. Vicki Minnis '77 did Diaspora's cover of cavorting silhouettes, as well as two impressively simple, almost monumental lithographs inside. Several of Lydia Bassett's 79 drawings reveal the influence of African abstraction, as well as a remarkable control of her medium. And the photographs by Marc Roberts '77, William Lewis Jr. '78, and King Downing are superb...
...touch with, continually reach out for, their heritage--Africa, slaveships, plantations, revolts, the crushed hopes of an oppressed people always bubbling up nonetheless through chains and cigarette smoke and broken refrigerators. These writers' best verse is narrative and pithy and stabbing, like "Miles to Go" by Marc Roberts (Diaspora's editor) which moves tightly, inexorably, raspingly, through one dismal day of a ghetto woman's life and ends...
...Marc Yanofsky '77, a consultant to the police, who developed the survey, said yesterday, "There has never been an effort to understand how students think about crime...