Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sociology was an academic stepchild and psychology a minor pseudoscientific discipline not much discussed in those days. It was history that held a paramount place in the curriculum. Those of us who took Sydney Fay's course in modern European history emerged imbued with the idea that the Germans were not solely responsible for the first World War, a revolutionary thought that we digested with a certain amount of skepticism. Our bible was the Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, which we read with a sense of the author's courage and valor that we all longed to emulate...
...commercial crossroads. Partly out of caution, partly out of weariness, the vanguard of the British I Corps halted for the night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill on June 10 to visit his forward headquarters in a lake-studded Norman chateau, and Churchill admired "the prosperity of the countryside ... full of lovely red and white cows basking or parading in the sunshine...
...case involved Gladys Pulliam, a Virginia magistrate who ordered two men held in jail because they could not make bail, even though they were charged with minor offenses that carried no jail terms. The two men got a federal injunction forbidding such jailing by Pulliam in the future, and a later order assessing the judge more than $7,000 for their legal fees. The four dissenters, led by Justice Lewis Powell, feared that judicial independence would now be eroded by "the ever present threat of burdensome litigation." But Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, could find no historical basis...
...civil offense that carries no jail sentence. Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled, 6 to 3, that police without a warrant can almost never arrest a person in his home for a minor offense. Though he concurred in the decision, Justice Blackmun observed that he thought it "amazing" that the "great state" of Wisconsin had failed to make a first drunk-driving offense a crime. Ironically, if it had been a more serious offense the Justices might have upheld the right of police to intrude...
...boomers have needed a voice. As observers have noted, the Yuppies grind their own coffee beans, sip Chablis, dress for success and book passage on the inside track. But what goes on behind their apartment doors? First Novelist Mark Stevens knows, and he cannily details their secret titillations and minor tragedies through the adventures of three characters in search of a lifestyle...