Word: referred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodate few more people, and the port city of Haifa (pop. 217,000) is equally crowded. From the Lebanese border town of Nahariya to Ashkelon in the south, Israel's coastline is becoming an urban sprawl much like the Boston-Washington metropolitan corridor. Israeli planners already refer to their emerging mini-Bos-Wash as NASH...
...refer to the Massachusetts Bay Colony statute of 1646. which decreed that if a man had "a stubborn or rebellious son" of at least 16 years of age, he could bring him to the magistrate's court where "such a son shall be put to death." It is interesting to note that this was copied directly from the Old Testament. Of significance is the fact that this early Hebrew practice recognized the fallibility of parents and left the decision to the elders of the town...
...power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate women in ways that they would otherwise angrily resist. 'An End to Rape' does not so much refer to rapes on the streets as to the daily brutalization of contact between doctor and patient, employer and employee, dater and datee...
...lately become Peckinpah's ironic pleasure to refer to himself in interviews as a "whore," and, appropriately, The Getaway works on that same kind of disinterested, mechanical level. There are a great many scenes of action and bloodletting, professionally handled and exciting. But the viewer is always aware that he is being manipulated very coolly and cynically...
...secrets, letting go of religion or consciously holding on to it for its ethical mythology, gaining consciousness of the lack of social health in their local and national community, the confounding complexity of modern personal relationships, and the absence of consistent and accurate history to which they can refer...