Word: style
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman at an evening film show; their leader was sentenced to life imprisonment at a public rally of some 5,000 people. The problem, claimed the local Southern Daily, was that the nine teen-agers "lacked ideals and yearned for a bourgeois style of life. Starting by learning how to smoke and gamble, they passed on to theft and hooliganism and degenerated into criminals against the people...
...funeral and discussing costs in advance with the mortician.) There is a section coyly called "Sex ... and ... Money" that offers suggestions on how to shop for and reduce the costs of an abortion. Glossaries help to explain insurance, stock market and real estate terms that Porter calls "bafflegab." Her style is brisk and hortatory. Porter warns her readers: "If you need a spring rain coat, don't stop off at the section reserved for bathing suits and buy a bikini at top price. I've done this sort of thing plenty of times, and I bet you have...
Everyone's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn. Conversational in style and lucid in its ex planations, Quinn's book, a third shorter and at $14.95 almost 50% cheaper than Porter's, is also a lot more fun to read. One section quotes Robert Frost: "Take care to sell your horse be fore he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." The book is well indexed, cross-referenced and divided into discrete subject areas; each chapter assumes the reader has not read the others. Quinn covers the usual ground of budgeting, investing, saving, home buying...
...crowned and richly vested Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I, Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff in nine centuries to join in an Orthodox Eucharistic service. Though the Pope did not partake of Communion, he quietly hummed along with the chants and made the sign of the cross Eastern style, right to left...
Should our country be a haven for criminals? Iran under the Shah, with its one party state, mob rallies, militaristic policies and Gestapo-style security system, has been aptly compared to Nazi Germany. The guilt of those responsible for this horror is not diminished because fewer people were tortured...