Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney Audrey C. Parr told Zobel that if she had a choice in the matter, she would have the case go before a jury. In addition, Parr said that because Zobel has already "been privy to voluminous" reports for therapists, psychologists and others, it might be difficult for him to decide the case solely on evidence introduced at trial...
...Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...
...might seem either, for there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason to exist except to be one of the magical 28. But there were always the marvelous cones, for Howard Johnson's cones were just about the only ones that stayed crisp and tasty no matter how long one spent lapping the ice cream down into the bottom, trying to make it last longer than anyone else's cone. Mon Dieu, tell Marcel Proust that madeleines are not made anymore...
...America's increasingly competitive society, the bad report card -- once fodder for Norman Rockwell and Leave It to Beaver -- is no longer a laughing matter. More and more social workers, educators and police are recognizing that report-card time can trigger a torrent of emotional and physical child abuse. While no national statistics are available, experts in communities nationwide say there is a spurt in the number of children suffering brutal beatings when report cards are sent home...
...workers, so did the capitalist realism proposed by Benton and Wood. Both were arts of idealization and propaganda. In aesthetic terms, little that Benton painted for the next 40 years would have seemed altogether out of place on the ceilings of the Moscow subway. Apart from this, the whole matter of Benton's racism is still up in the air. His paintings of blacks look condescending because he never figured out how patronizing his desire to "ennoble" them was, but at least he was equally hard on whites, those gangling hayseeds and pudgy politicos...