Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is evidence of the earliest and most sketchy sort, but a pattern seems to emerge: Rosovsky's committees will endeavor to remake the strictures on undergraduates in a modern mode, and to see to it that the new strictures are spread, at least in spirit, as broadly as possible across the land. What those strictures will be is far harder to judge--stricter grading policies, perhaps, and more requirements. Maybe the requirements will directly reflect modern society--more science, more economics, more on the third world--or perhaps they will stress basic writing and analytic skills. They are likely...
...work out. She recognizes the model's plight as a person whose deeper attributes will probably never be allowed to surface: "Being pretty has always had drawbacks for Black women; being beautiful is our natural state." Yet similar qualms about the image of herself that has been most widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch her breath for a moment and rate the words that drone on and on. She blithely denounces Ralph Ellison...
Word of Moore's FBI connection spread through the radical community, and she was ostracized. Whenever she attended meetings, she was surrounded by a circle of empty seats. She sought to counteract her alienation by making a full confession of her past links to the FBI. To reporters, radio interviewers and anyone else who would listen, she would pour forth self-criticism and expound on Marxist and Maoist theories. Whereupon both the FBI and the radicals dropped her entirely. Still longing for the thrills of clandestine work, she cultivated ties with San Francisco police, who in turn...
Until recently, few democratic nations other than the U.S. have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
...officer raps on the door of the suspect's room, identifies himself, then breaks in when he hears sounds of the door's apparently being barricaded. Segarra, 24, dressed in his underwear, is there with his wife and three-year-old son. He spread-eagles himself on the bed and surrenders. He says that he last saw Velez, the suspected killer, at an apartment on Clinton Street. Thirty-five officers go there...