Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mirror effect. Isaac Babel's The Death of Dolgushov concerns the inability of men fully to apprehend the griefs and atrocities of battle; Doris Lessing's Homage for Isaac Babel is about the inability of children to comprehend the depths and subtleties of Babel's deceptively plain fictions. But most of the tales are discrete, ironic parables, works, as Irving Howe describes them, "brought to a stark conclusion-abrupt, bleeding, exhausting...
...University affiliated Arnold Arboretum, badly in need of stepped up security in the aftermath of a series of recent tapes and assaults on its Jamaica Plain facility, is only the most recent case in point. The Arboretum seems an imminent threat to human life. Yet Harvard again has refused to put aside fiscal caution. The University should swiftly volunteer the $50,000 in funds that Arboretum officials say they need--a gesture not only to improve community relations, but to fill an urgent need...
...would be unrealistic" to expect Harvard to provide even temporary beefed-up security at the 265-acre Jamaica Plain botanical gardens. Arboretum director Peter Ashton explained last week. While Ashton said the University has agreed to provide non monetary "support," Harvard is not expected to help Boston in policing what had previously been described as the city's safest park...
...Harvard should provide the funds necessary to establish the park ranger service at the Arboretum, only $50,000. University affiliates gain precious research experience from their involvement with the Arboretum, and though Harvard spends hundreds of thousands of dollars managing the Arboretum, it is able to lease the Jamaica Plain property from the city for only one dollar per year...
...continue," says Kent Joscelyn, a transportation specialist at the University of Michigan, "there must be reasonable grounds to believe a crime was committed." Experts agree that if drugs or other contraband are in plain view, police may seize it and then look further. In cases of suspected drunken driving, some officials believe that the smell of alcohol on a driver's breath justifies a Breathalyzer test. Of course, police can simply ask questions. Everyone has a constitutional right not to answer. But when officers at the Arkansas roadblock inquired whether anyone had drugs, a few honest travelers admitted that...