Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roth-Kemp plan, if instituted, would mean a $501 tax cut for a typical single person earning $10,000 a year who has deductions of 23 per cent of income once the plan reached full effectiveness (after 3 years); a family of four under the same conditions would get a $228 cut; the four-member family earning $25,000 would...
Perhaps you espouse a true no-fault society, where no person or corporation is responsible for its acts and conduct-no matter how injurious the result. I hope your readers will never agree...
...object in your American Scene to Plaquemines Parish's purchasing a golf course for the public at a return of $2 for every dollar invested by the taxpayer, and advocate the expenditure for water in Ironton of $2,000 a person, or over $20,000, for the benefit of the Merlis Broussard family of ten or more. The officials of Plaquemines Parish have always maintained fiscal responsibility and resisted irresponsible federal handouts, a duty they owe to their tax-paying citizens...
Everyone except the abnormally saintly or submissive possesses the retaliatory instinct. It lurks like a small black gland at the base of the brain, in the mind's nonreasoning regions. When a person's elemental sense of justice is offended, the retributive instinct flares and hops in outrage; it gesticulates like Mussolini; it demands satisfaction. The urge is deep and primitive. Some cannibals on Pacific islands used to eat convicted murderers for dinner-a practice that appeased both their hunger for food and their thirst for justice...
...come to cleave to, find the form for one's own life comprehensions" is also essential. To have that kind of confidence, a writer needs to be taken seriously and appreciated. Here Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...