Word: period
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collection of ominous essays and magazine reprints, Handlin charges his profession with moral violations. He grades each period of historical study and finds the record worsening with time--giving the lowest marks to the 1970s. But historians began slipping up much earlier, altogether missing the goal of accurate interpretation...
...trace it back to Africa. Make sure it's your history recalled by your grandmother and no one will know the difference because you are its living witness. Handlin says Haley really added yeast to his story when he devoted "85 per cent of his attention to the period before the Civil War, the time least subject to reader verification, the time most readily freighted with nostalgia and fantasy for their benefit...
...states ashamed of their complacency in the face of genocide. The U.N. was declaring dramatically that it must never happen again. And in taking such unprecedented measures it implicitly acknowledged the special place that had to be accorded to Jews after the war; war; not accidentally, in the period between the resolution and the convention, the U.N. passed the resolution mandating the creation of a Jewish state in partitioned Palestine...
Real chances and opportunities from the top level down have been created. That's the reason why we, pole cat of the world, have avoided the bloody revolution despite the fact that the whole of Africa was in a period of revolution...
...experience in this is that the whites are willing to accept almost anything, provided that the standard of living is not dropped and provided order is maintained. They have built things over a long period of time with great difficulty. They think that if that should be lowered then what has their work been...