Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal-hungry press has no right to pretrial hearings so that they can feed the scandal-hungry public. Until a person is formally charged with a crime, his privacy must be protected...
...delegates who found the speech patronizing were capped when Vernon Jordan began his keynote speech by saying, "I'm president of the National Urban League and I happen to be black." When she insisted to 500 guests at a fund raiser in Dallas that "Jimmy is the best person to lead us through the energy crisis and the confidence crisis," the party faithful seemed skeptical. Said Harlingen City Commissioner Jim Werner: "The people should not be blamed for the energy crisis, but instead the man and his ill-assorted cronies." And at a fund raiser among the rich...
...inflicted on a community, and a boy, under German occupation. By writing of the war from an individual's point-of-view, Haviaras makes its terror more tangible. Devastation is incomprehensible on a large scale; to have emotional impact, it must be brought down to the level of one person. And because he writes of a place where the identity of the individual is bound up in that of the community, by writing of the individual's anguish he also conveys the anguish of the community. By bringing a poet's perception to a child's unemcumbered view...
...hero to Soviet human rights activists. But at least one celebrated dissident has taken up his cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik...
...Mandelstam and hundreds of other writers did during the Great Purges of the late '30s. But who could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters in the pitiful drama that is played out in this book. A person's be havior, and even character, she wrote, "is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him." -Patricia Blake