Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These bills came on top of no fewer than 150 others under consideration by Conyers' House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. They range from a weak measure offered by President Ford that would prohibit the import and manufacture of cheap ($25) "Saturday night specials" to a proposal to outlaw the sale, ownership or possession of all handguns by private citizens. This and many other measures would be largely unenforceable. But the appalling fact is that despite the recent near tragedies and the countless tragedies that lie ahead for victims of gun wounds, not one of these 150 bills has much...
...concerned with more than survival, with survival not being enough, which is refreshing after more indulgent writers. His first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, is set in a grim prairie expanse in the west, a badland blowing as cold and vacant as the plains near ancient Thebes. An outlaw comes to the frontier town and idly levels it; the book is about weak humans who build it again though they know in their hearts it will probably be razed again. The Book of Daniel, his most recent work, is about the son of a couple like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
...quite for north. Featuring Johnny Rodriguez (commercial junk), dick Cureless (the Dean of New England country music, specializing in trucking songs, with a voice so dead that it makes the back up voice in "Duke of Ear" sound like Tiny Tim). Waylon Janinge (the greatest of the Austin-based outlaw country singers), and Scruggs his own self. Tickets at Ticketron...
...exquisite Symbolist movement that was to become his first major book, Axel's Castle. ("Living? We'll leave that to the servants," said decadent Count Axel.) This departure exacted its melancholy price. As the decade ended, Wilson was falling away from old companions, from the "outlaw" life of the Village, from youth. The mood was summed up by his favorite cousin Sandy Kimball, a schizophrenic whom Wilson visited in an institution: "Life's all right...
...distribution pattern would involve continual interference with people's lives to prevent them from making transfers that would violate the pattern. A society which enforced equal income distribution would have to forbid people from doing things for other people for money after work. The government would have to outlaw capitalist acts between consenting adults. This restricts both what a person can do with his life and his income...