Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those colliding statements, both from Southwestern scholars in the field of immigration studies, reflect the controversy that surrounds a seemingly straightforward but highly emotional question: Does the inflow of illegal foreign labor help or hurt the U.S. economy...
...many Anglos, Hispanic insularity seems to be, to put it bluntly, un- American. This feeling not infrequently is reinforced by straightforward, ugly racism. Neil Rogers, who conducts a talk show on Miami radio station WINZ, last December broadcast a prediction of continued heavy Cuban immigration into South Florida and invited his listeners to comment. "Shoot them before they land," suggested one caller. More often, Anglos simply avoid contact with Hispanics. Bob Lansing, who runs a collection agency in Beverly Hills, grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles when it was predominantly Jewish. Now that...
...American hostages before the Lebanese prisoners were let go. The Administration could rightly argue, too, that Israel was going to free the Lebanese prisoners anyway and that the hijacking only delayed their release. Such subtleties would probably be lost on world opinion, which would see only a straightforward swap. Nonetheless, Israel took a step in that direction Sunday when it announced that it was releasing 31 of the detainees early this week while denying that the gesture had been precipitated by the hostage crisis in Beirut...
...create, in contemporary context, the medieval quest. In A Catskill Eagle, his hard-boiled detective, Spenser, vows to rescue a maiden imprisoned in a tower. But the modern world, with its complexities ranging from feminism to the military- industrial complex, has all but nullified the chance for such straightforward valor. The "maiden" is Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance may in fact be voluntary; her guards are also employees of an unscrupulous international arms dealer; the macho Spenser must rely on help from a lesbian journalist...
...White House strategy last week was simply to grab the public's attention. Explained one Administration adviser: "We wanted four to six days of exposure with Reagan reinforcing a simple, straightforward idea: tax reform is pro- fairness, pro-family and pro-growth. Tax reform is Reagan." Reagan will keep making his pitch in coming weeks, but will lay off during the summer and fall, while Congress works its unpredictable way with the plan. By September, at the earliest, crucial committee votes may be at hand, and the President will return to center stage. If he does not like what Congress...