Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This empathy graces all her writing. She is especially effective in describing the dispossessed, social outcasts or loners whose frustrated dreams fueled the violence and anger of the '60s. In "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik," she focuses on bikers and a young girl who wants to be a movie star. The bikers' childish excesses outrage her, yet she captures their alienation and compares it with the futile dreams of an aspiring star who desperately wants to be known...
Today's neo-rightists want more spending on arms, including $30 billion for the MX missile. Yet these same people are calling for a constitutional convention to balance the budget, presumably by cutting social programs. They apparently put more value on the instruments of global death than they do on the instruments of hope for America's needy...
...long time, domestic violence did not get much attention from social scientists. If there was any real expert on this almost taboo subject, it was the cop on the beat, who often found himself intervening in family scraps, much to his chagrin: more policemen get killed or wounded while trying to settle such disputes than in any other line of duty. But lately social scientists like Straus, who heads the University of New Hampshire's Family Violence Research Program, have been taking a closer look at the subject. What they are finding is grim...
...feels entitled to. But it is the work that counts, and must be seen, in all its energy and episodic magnificence: a vast panorama, from the haunted fin-de-siècle symbolist canvases of Mikhail Vrubel to the last attempts, by painters like Alexander Deineka, to combine a social message with a post-cubist idiom before the freeze...
...humidity of 20% to 60%. The engineers' studies also show that under unfavorable conditions, worker productivity falls, on-the-job accidents increase, and employee errors rise. Not to mention frustration levels. "What we're up against," declares Fred Crawford, director of the Center for Research in Social Change at Atlanta's Emory University, "is having our personal freedoms and choices so circumscribed that ordinary citizens are being turned into lawbreakers." Crawford also believes that national habits will change if Carter's plan is enacted: people will spend more time at home where they can turn...