Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES by Tom Wolfe. From the foibles of criminal justice in the Bronx to the follies on Wall Street, New York City and its movers and shakers are done to a crisp by the leading social satirist of his generation...
...last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield, Mass., in 1966, Agnos, 49, becomes the first non-native to run the city in 40 years. Ever mindful of his outsider's background, Agnos declares, "The center of power in this town has shifted...
...meeting Americans. This time our visit is too short. I hope next time will be longer." At one point she launched into a discussion of modern life: "In our age, all of us have to work. We have professional duties. We have family duties as well as social duties. A person in the 20th century is at a loss to distribute his or her time...
Resettlement is an ambitious government scheme to move 1.5 million peasants from the overcrowded and barren north to the more fertile south. While international agricultural officials acknowledge that the program is a legitimate effort to solve some of the country's long-term social and economic problems, they charge that in past years the Mengistu government carried it out with unnecessary cruelty. According to some Western diplomats, the regime broke up families and forced villagers to move to camps that had no housing, no water, no health facilities and often no food. Of the 600,000 northerners who were resettled...
...abusive spouse even if the victim declines to press charges. To make the collar sting, the assailant is arrested at his place of work. "As long as he's assaulting her within their own little world, it can continue," says Police Chief Reuben Greenberg. "At work there's a social cost." Ultimately that public exposure may be the most effective deterrent to spouse abuse. "We have the right in the U.S. to peace and tranquillity," says a former battered white-collar wife. "Yet for these women, home is the most dangerous place...