Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shapiro builds cynicism in four main ways. First, he creates the impression that the '69 strike activists were simple-minded, immature and impetuous. Second, citing a few somewhat odd-sounding cases, he creates the impression that most strike activists have now mainly copped out of the struggle. Third, he poses as the alternative the philosophical-sounding, "wiser-than-when-I-was-young" approach of Mike Kazin. And fourth, he dismisses an organized, communist movement as a serious alternative to this otherwise depressing picture. That's where "We" comes in. It was written to mock communism without having to take...
...other case studies, me and others in the WSA didn't drop off into a private world after '69. Since "we" have done much political organizing and much discussing things together, and since our Party for Workers Power tries to lead class struggle scientifically, it would have been slightly odd for me to have discussed how "I've changed since '69." (By the way, contrary to Shapiro, I do think "we've" changed much since '69. Check out our new paper, Spark...
...background for her theories. Most of this material is not germane to her present subject--today's injustice--because it is concerned with legal practices long dead and buried. DeCrow does spare her reader the oft-used propaganda rhetoric of some "movement" books, but the hesitating, abrupt style and odd organization is at times irritating...
...Yalie who drove a 1970 Karmann-Ghia and smelled of ivied clubs. To Woodward, also 30, the shaggy Bernstein symbolized one of those unseemly counterculture journalists. But when they accepted the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for their pioneering probe of the Watergate scandal, it was obvious that the odd couple made an ideal journalistic team...
...Nixon Administration should give Chafetz's agency the entire $137,947,000 it has requested for the coming fiscal year, instead of attempting to cut it to $99,800,000. The money would be well spent on research, training, community health services and public education. Second, the 30-odd states that have not yet removed drunkenness from the criminal statutes should do so, adding treatment centers and halfway houses on the Minnesota model. Third, more companies should start alcoholic rehabilitation programs, looking upon money spent combatting alcoholism as almost an efficiency measure, which it certainly...