Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops are too late so I figure they won't mind if I waylay them with a few questions. They're reticent talkers. About six months ago the department assigned the highest percentage of plain-clothes officers in the city to the Combat Zone. The commander of vice, John Doyle, handles inquiries into the reasons for this policy. But they tell me that all you really need to know about the Zone is that it's a dangerous place, and you shouldn't be nosing around in it. It becomes clear to me that of all zones--parcel post, erogenous...
...Night is Dark and I am Far From Home is similarly filled with moral outrage, but unfortunately, that is about all it offers. The book is a rambling critique of modern American society that finds brutality, inhumanity and just plain ugliness practically everywhere, and Kozol seems more intent on arousing feelings of guilt in his readers than on attempting to understand or analyze the problems he finds. In the first chapter he says he hopes he will provoke "pain and anguish" in the consciousness of the reader, and he has clearly put a lot of effort into writing a depressing...
...firm voice in maintaining a proper defense. We had a good man and suddenly he's out. No warning, no explanation, just plain dismissed. If the reason is that the President wants a different approach to defense, I don't like it. It disturbs...
Showmanship is of prime importance in street juggling, Haber says, because "you have to attract and hold people. You have to develop a certain amount of plain old chutzpah to face an audience...
...Ford's New York is machinelike and anti-individual, Beame's is plain, small scale, an integral part of America. "New York is truly an American city," he says. "It is a town [!] which had a stake in the American Dream 150 years before the United States was born." This New York, practically a preurban village by this point in the speech, is concerned with the welfare of "the innocent, the powerless and the least resilient members of our society." It has all the homespun virtues Ford feels so much fondness for; its sense of humanity and of national community...