Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orthodoxies by candidly exploring the social pathologies -- drug use, crime, teen pregnancies, welfare dependency and other destructive behavior -- evident in the inner cities. Discussion of these catastrophic ghetto problems by liberals has been stifled, he says, ever since black scholars raised a storm over the 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the breakdown of the black family. In the absence of forthright research from liberals and blacks, writes Wilson, right-wing scholars like Charles Murray (Losing Ground) gained influence with the Reagan Administration by asserting that welfare programs had become so lucrative that they provided greater economic incentive...
...Church will only celebrate the most festive holidays. No religious ceremonies that require fasting or giving up sex for several months. July 4th will be the holiest day of the year, followed closely by St. Patrick's Day and Christmas. Any other holiday that provides a day off from work will be worked into the Church's religious calendar. As I said, it will be very easy to be very religious in the Church of Religious Consciousness...
Among the 59 scholars elected, two are Harvardprofessors. They are Professor of Astronomy andApplied Physics Patrick Thaddeus and Professor ofSocial Anthropology, Emeritus John W.M. Whiting
Despite a pending lawsuit by the Beverly Hills Restaurant Association, it is unlikely the law will be repealed. "Posterity may find that this ban was well ahead of its time," says Patrick Reynolds, an antismoking activist and Beverly Hills resident who saw his father die of emphysema. He is the grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the famed tobacco company...
...Harvard golf team placed second yesterday in a field of seven teams at the Greater Boston Championships. The Crimson (398) fell to Tufts (396) by only two strokes, and Harvard golfer Patrick Kenary finished tied with the day's low score...