Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most successful pieces of civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s, the law expires August 6. Black leaders and congressional liberals wanted to extend the provisions that now affect seven Southern states.* Literacy tests would continue to be banned. The Justice Department would retain the right to have federal registrars and examiners at the polls. Most important, the states and counties covered would continue to be prohibited from changing election laws and procedures without Justice Department approval. Case-by-case enforcement via the courts could be avoided, as at present...
...would have to be directed at whole neighborhoods. Instead of building new subsidized public housing -which often "locks people into the cities," as Kristof puts it-federal housing and aid might better be used to make neighborhoods attractive to middle-class families that cities are struggling in vain to retain...
...majority that voted to retain the exclusionist resolution consisted of supporters of the November Action Committee (NAC). They will decide whether or not to participate in the SMC demonstration at a meeting this Sunday at Boston University...
Boll's brief glimpses, even of Nazi soldiers struggling to retain essential humanity, acquire a lasting and humane relevance for any country...
Miller's crapulous expatriates have a vitality that even Strick cannot quash. Their scatological, X-rated fury at a world that has the audacity to be imperfect is still molten. And their alternate curses at and apostrophes to the female pudenda retain a primal humor. But anyone who has read or watched the real Henry Miller knows that the author possesses a sly, ribald wit that is entirely absent from Rip Torn's somnambulistic impersonation. Leeching meals and wives from the bourgeois, Miller-Torn provides neither charm nor intelligence; it is impossible to believe that he would...