Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking. Both Russia and China expressed routine outrage over the renewed bombing, but, as in May, their reaction was far short of apocalyptic. In a speech observing the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev declared that better relations with the U.S. depend on a prompt settlement of the Viet Nam War. Criticism, in fact, was harsher in West European countries. In Paris, Le Monde compared the bombing to the Nazi destruction of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. Britain's biggest newspaper, the Daily Mirror, commented: "The American resumption of the bombing of North...
That landmark ruling extended to a juvenile offender many rights that an adult can take for granted: the right to prompt notice of the charges against him, the right to consult a lawyer, to avoid self-incrimination and to cross-examine hostile witnesses. But though it was a breakthrough, the Gault ruling hardly signaled full legal status for children. "Children are the last 'niggers' of our society," says Larry Brown, director of the Boston Task Force on Children Out of School. But Gault at least got something started. As Brown observes: "We're on the verge...
Esoteric works, Prague linguistics, the letters of Alban Berg, and forgotten masterpieces like Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique are elevated to the level on indispensable texts; like letters discovered several decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader to reevaluate his library and his notebook, those two vessels of humane learning. In time, he realizes that what he has collected represents no more than a mere portion of what there is, and resolves to devote his labors to the subjective, to whatever mirrors and enhances his own suspicions...
...head. His associates tend to agree and praise him further for lifting spirits in a department staffed heavily with liberal civil servants largely antagonistic to Nixon's conservative social policies. Some do fault Richardson, however, for too blithely accepting Nixon's rejection of both his plans for prompt school desegregation, such as the use of busing in Austin, Texas, and his attempts to compromise with Congress on welfare reform. Richardson has a self-protective knack of getting along with his superiors...
...seems evident that whatever the procedures undertaken in this morning's emergency, they are inadequate. Whether or not Mr. Pickering's life could have been saved by prompt arrival of capable medical help to require twenty-five minutes to get a doctor from Holyoke Center to Sever Hall is indefensible. As the Health Services prides itself on the quality and comprehensiveness of its services it is most disturbing that the UHS has not been able to fulfill its most crucial function the effective and efficient handling of emergency medical situations on campus. Paul A. Parisi...