Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incredible that in the days of violence no one was killed. Occasionally, trapped policemen would fire in the air. One unidentified civilian fired three shots, but no witness could discover his target. Nevertheless, the report is a warning that another confrontation might not be so fortunate. It notes: "To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot...
Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...
...Injustice. Sinclair came from a shabby-genteel Maryland family, absorbing from that background both a breadth of interests and a sympathy for other havenots. He helped support himself in college by peddling jokes to newspapers for $1 each. He ground out several pulp novels before The Jungle, and he read even faster than he wrote: in one two-week Christmas holiday, he got through all of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's poetry...
Several section men have volunteered to teach specific aspects of imperialism or racism, two of the topics covered in Soc Rel 148, in the proposed course, Finkelhor said. Other sections might discuss strategic questions of how to achieve fundamental social change or read "classical literature such as Marx, Lenin, and Mao," he added...
...from the rest of the issue. The opening "Vanitas" piece by Nick Pilavachi is the most obvious example of the flaw that pervades nearly all the pieces. For most readers, Pilavachi's piece may be the only example of anything in the issue, because it's mighty hard to read much further after finishing this one. The piece has the right premise: by lightly ridiculing the idea that "there is really nothing at all funny about this sordid world," and suggesting a special committee to investigate evil "completely and without incompetence," someone like Russell Baker might make us is really...