Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasionally faulted the News polling techniques, but all agree that the straw poll has been and will continue to be pretty accurate. If it isn't the perfect measure of existing public opinion, at least it does such a good job of convincing its readers as to constitute a self-fulfilling prophesy. The News is that much revered and trusted (its news coverage, that is, not its editorials), and the straw poll has long served as the climax of New York's election battles...
Salamanca, 45, teaches English at the University of Maryland. He explored the theme of troubled love under widely different and far more dramatic circumstances in his first two novels, The Lost Country and Lilith. Just because the Pritchards are so ordinary, the corruption wrought by self-knowledge in A Sea Change is more ironic and profound. In an attempt to provoke a return to the freshness of their early love, the Pritchards torment each other in various subtle as well as insidious ways-until nothing is left of their marriage...
Parker said that the future improvement of the black people in the United States depends on "black capitalism and programs of self-help." Blacks should work through the American system and become entrepreneurs, he said...
...system tends to be self perpetuating because scholarship, academic appointments and research proposals are all judged by the people...
...self-styled radical (beard), he skipped class but worked out on October 15. In "real life," he is majoring in Biochemistry, having switched from government, and does not go to football games. He rooms with two other runners and enjoys operating a bulldozer...