Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With traditional neighbor-neighbor friendliness undermined. I found few avenues for social diversion...
...conned a group of Denver tree distributors into bankrolling them by showing them seven sample trees. The group then went off to remote slopes and, with a crew of ten, buzz-sawed 2,000 more trees, that would probably have brought a total of $14,000. A neighbor heard the power saws at work and phoned police, who arrested the thieves. Such arrests are the exception, though, since guarding parks or forests is nearly impossible. "Some owners sleep by their lots," said a policeman in Bismarck, N.D. "But last night it was 18° below zero...
Childhood in America 200 years ago began at home; boys and girls were born there, most likely delivered by a midwife or simply a neighbor woman. There were virtually no obstetricians. Commonly the infants were delivered in a room specifically set aside for the purpose: the "borning room"-much used because the children came one after the other and, alas, died far more often than is now the case. Historians estimate that year in, year out, about a third or more of all children died in infancy-in typhoid and smallpox epidemics, of diphtheria, dysentery and respiratory ailments. Measles exacted...
...farm families or black tenant farmers or poor white people up the hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky or Indians on various reservations. I have worked with children who were delivered under the saddest and most dangerous conditions -delivered not even by midwives but by a nearby friend or neighbor of their mother, and in cabins that lacked running water, electricity, even a semblance of decent sanitation. Those same children never see a doctor, often go only fitfully to school, experience a confused, harassed and in some cases uprooted childhood, and have a life expectancy much lower than that...
...would seem that the real issue of gay liberation is not, like that of the socialist movement, a supposed right to something (like free medical care of ones neighbor's cow) but a right to be free from something (namely harrassment). It is a matter of liberty rather than supposed entitlement. The number one usurper of liberty is, of course, the state apparatus, whatever its stripe. Lawrence H. White H-R Sons of Liberty