Word: stark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only was St. Clair's behavior high-handed, culturally biased, and subtly racist, his argument of cultural assimilation proved logically contradictory. In arguing that the Indians' loss of their native language, their intermarriage, their informal government, and their conversion to Christianity dissolved their tribal status, he ignored the stark fact that Indians, at least in the East, have to live in a white man's society and by white man's rules. Indians survived by undergoing cultural assimilation, and now they are being penalized for adapting to necessity...
...Evangelical Christians can understand the stark conversion of scapegraces and rapscallions, since the history of Christianity is full of agonizing personal reform (St. Paul. St. Augustine). Recalling the anguish of saints and mystics in their lifelong search for a flash from heaven or a sudden touch of grace, some Christians find it difficult to accept the validity of easy Evangelical contacts with God. Still, grace has always been amazing, and that judgment may be too harsh. Whether they wrestled mightily in their souls for a private sense of the divine presence or slipped salvation on as easily as a glove...
...likely to be haunted by what they left behind. California Congressman Fortney Stark, a prime mover behind Congress's efforts to aid Americans imprisoned in Mexico, has a file of more than 200 horror stories from inmates. One woman arrested on a drug charge claims she was informed that if she refused to confess, she would be tossed into a river and ground up by a nearby power plant. Another charged that officials had ripped off one of her earrings-and her ear lobe. Male inmates reported being tortured with cattle prods while still dripping from a shower. According...
...domestic consumption of petroleum, the public reacted with little more than yawns, and it now appears that little fuss would be raised outside of the White House if Congress passed no energy bill at all. The cautious tones of compromise now sounding on the Hill stand in stark contrast to Carter's battle cry of eight months ago, so the public's disappointment and boredom are understandable...
...reader can be fairly certain the spirited defenses, poignant recollections and stark contrasts of the 37th president in victory and defeat in With Nixon are Price...