Word: references
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter includes an ambiguous reference to the possibility that murder can flow from a political kidnaping and adds: "When I refer to murder, it is not to prohibit it absolutely ... it is merely to observe that one has set the precedent, and that later on, when govm't resistance to this sort of thing stiffens, men will be killed...
...story is told through the mind of Avinga, a kind of Eskimo Ishmael who finally finds himself alone after the disintegration of his community. To Avinga and his fellow Eskimos, the rescued white men are almost fascinatingly ugly. They refer to them as kalunait (literally, "people with the heavy eyebrows"), the legendary offspring of a wayward Eskimo girl and a sled dog. Yet they tolerate the white men's minor barbarities and breaches of courtesy with indulgent understanding...
...witness testified that Petrey had participated in a chant to "Let the Assholes Speak" when Archibald Cox '34 was speaking. Noting that Cox was also trying to quiet the crowd, Countryman asked the witness if "you normally refer to the people you agree with as assholes...
...seven-man panel would then forward its recommendation to the President. He may either approve the recommendation-and submit it to the Corporation for action-or overrule it and refer the case back to the hearing panel. Final authority, however, lies with the President and the Corporation...
...anomie is diminished as the individual participates in a common social goal." To put his theory into practice, Blachly proposes an alliance between organ-transplant centers and some of the many suicide-prevention services that are now in existence. The services, which usually offer psychiatric help to callers, would refer appropriate cases to transplant centers as possible donors. The customary two-or three-month waiting period before surgery would give psychiatrists time to study the would-be donor's motives and his chances of benefiting from giving an organ. The result, Blachly says, might well be an enhanced "sense...