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Hirsch's harebrained study should be dumped into the garbage. As a high school English teacher, I can testify that in education alone, the moron tube is so poisonous and hypnotic that the disease of illiteracy is rampant...
...riot. But he denies that Trifa was a Legionary leader, belonged to the Iron Guard, or intended to cause a pogrom. His client, he says, was forced to choose between the Soviets and Nazis, and chose the latter, adopting anti-Semitism that was rampant at the time...
This kind of dry riposte is the Brinkley trademark. Faced with the task of making news during a lull in last month's Democratic Convention, Brinkley drolly noted the "rampant inactivity on the floor." The convention was the 14th that he has covered since 1956, when he and Chet Huntley launched their evening news program. Before long, an estimated 20 million people were watching Huntley-Brinkley and their innovative presentation. Recalls Brinkley: "We sort of set the form of TV news as it persists to this day. A story or two, or three; somebody setting them up and then...
...freezing, frightened participants yearn for almost any kind of escape. As for those who were restricted to England for the duration, the climate, which had once seemed a mild test of pluck and heartiness, began to seem intolerable. What Fussell calls the "I Hate It Here" syndrome became rampant, particularly among writers, malcontents at the best of tunes. When getting away finally became possible again, many left seeking not just adventure but permanent exile...
Relations between Miami's Blacks and Cubans were never very good, in large part because many of Miami's Black church groups claimed that Cubans were supplying the cocaine smuggling rings that run rampant in the city streets. After the arrival of the Freedom Flotilla, Blacks found it particularly obnoxious that the city and county governments were helping the refugees find jobs while Black unemployment was high. Yet during and after the rioting, many Miamians were actually relieved that the Black rioters didn't attack the Cuban areas of town, because that, people feel, might have sparked a street...