Word: particularized
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Although Hungarian history is studded with Rakóssys (the most celebrated led a revolt against Austria in the 18th century), this particular baron is fictional. Still, the character and the story have the ring of authenticity. Author Holland got her expertise at the Connecticut College for Women, where she specialized in the Hungarian Renaissance, but there is more in her book than research. As in her fine first novel, Firedrake (TIME, Feb. 18), Cecelia Holland writes a spare, masculine prose and applies the technique of the good U.S. western to her feudal lords. She avoids the stage-prop flummery...
...strategic question is whether a few "core" criminal markets provide the organizational stimulus for organized crime. If the answer turns out to be yes, then a critical question is whether the particular market so essential for the "economic development" of the underworld, and the emergence of organized crime, is one of the black markets dependent on "protection" against legitimate competition or instead is an inherently criminal activity. This question is critical because black markets always offer, in principle, the option of restructuring the market, or increasing competition as well as reducing it, of compromising the original prohibition in the larger...
Third, a large number of consumers who are probably not ordinary criminals--the conventioneers who visit houses of prostitution, the housewives who bet on horses, the women who seek abortions--are taught contempt, even enmity, for the law, by being obliged to purchase particular commodities and services from criminals in an illegal transaction...
...split in experience may have serious consequences, for, as a result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected...
...reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...