Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motives of a Son of Sam [Aug. 22] may be unfathomable, but the progress from hidden psychopathology to murder has one brilliantly clear turning point-easy access to guns. A free society has to tolerate a lot of misfits, freaks and senseless behavior, but should draw the line at gun freaks. Senseless behavior mixed with senseless gun laws produces senseless killings...
...sociobiology, but the quotes came from a discussion in which I also criticized and even ridiculed the new subfield. Its thought-provoking notions about behavior include some that are true, few that are novel, many that are trivial, and none that can substitute for the complex, laborious, difficult progress of the rest of behavioral and social science. Why do people always like it easy...
...painful heritage. Encouraging incentive in the underclass, and overcoming the barriers of racism, could take just five or ten years; more likely, the tasks will require a generation or more. The entire society?business, government and ordinary citizens?will have to chip away at the problems. The alternative to progress would be more desperation, hostility, violence and disaffection within the underclass. That is something even the world's wealthiest country would find difficult to afford...
...ominously. Italy's Mount Etna has erupted for the third time in a month, sending a stream of lava three kilometers (two miles) down the mountainside and shooting a pillar of flame and smoke 450 meters (1,500 ft.) into the air. Both provided evidence that, regardless of progress in other areas, man is still powerless to control the fires beneath his feet...
...since John F. Kennedy launched the Alliance for Progress in 1961 had Latin Americans seen anything quite like the attention they were getting from Washington last week. Even as representatives of the U.S. and Panama were striking an agreement for a new Canal treaty (see THE NATION), the Carter Administration was busy trying to patch up frayed relations and win new friends elsewhere south of the border...