Word: particulars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trying to fool anybody. If a paneled room with baronial fireplace happens to be from London's Barclays Bank, he says so, and an Oklahoma City developer is pleased indeed to buy it for $32,500. But at a preview Wilson has also eagerly explained that a particular "pub" was actually taken from a church and rearranged. "We embellish, combine, try to keep the period," he says...
Farther to the south, rebel forces nearly captured the town of Rivas before Somoza ordered an additional 300 troops airlifted in from Managua. Rivas, only 22 miles from the Costa Rican border, is of particular importance to the Sandinistas since they favor it as their provisional capital. If they succeeded in seizing the city, 1,000 government troops would be trapped between Rivas and the Costa Rican border, where an equally large contingent of guerrillas is entrenched. At week's end the Sandinistas had also captured the city of Jinotepe, and were battling for control of Esteii and Granada...
Such underground violence is the dread of many urbanites, but this particular example took place last week in rural New Hampshire. The participants were 26 New York City transit police who went to Dartmouth College for 14 days of total immersion in Spanish. Of the city's 2,900 subway police, only 135 speak Spanish -in a city with 2.6 million Hispanics...
During its 1978-79 session, which was adjourned last week, the Supreme Court was neither liberal nor conservative. It was distinctly nonideological. Which rights were upheld, and which rights were not, depended not so much on any overarching doctrine as on the facts of a particular case. The court is without an identity, and at times, unpredictable. To the press, the court's decisions on the First Amendment may have seemed all too predictable. But other groups-civil libertarians, police, women, business people -came to the court without any sure idea of where they stand...
...socially desirable answer was 'Yes, I like people!' We see this attitude reflected in such books as Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes. It was the era of the common man! Predictably William's 'sense of humanity' was an approved value of that particular cultural trend. However, alternative views are possible ... I question whether an indiscriminate liking for people is a virtue ... Yet that may be one reason why Williams went into general practice, and I became a pathologist. He was willing to accept the world and people in it as they were...