Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Police suspect that some of the slayings are ordered by kangaroo courts that are settling scores between the I.R.A.'s feuding Provisional and Marxist-lining Official wings. Others have almost certainly been carried out by extremists of the Protestant Ulster Defense Association. Catholics fear that U.D.A. assassins are seeking indiscriminate revenge against anyone who happens to be Catholic. Militant Ulster Vanguard Leader William Craig recently told an Orange Order rally that in retaliating against I.R.A. violence, "it will not be possible to choose between friend and foe in the Roman Catholic community...
...Also I suspect that we may be getting some of the same kind of backlash among Jewish voters that we saw earlier among white voters in general when efforts were made to deal with the problems of poverty and the problems of blacks. But as we move toward the election, those Jewish voters who have traditionally voted for the Democratic nominee will start coming home again...
...frightened by the political implications of leading people into the promised land, moving them away from politics to political management, from being citizens to becoming subjects. Futurism, I think, is ideological camouflage, and should be very, very suspect...
More than that, a no-growth world would have extreme difficulty providing either social justice or freedom. It is hard to see how growth could be halted, or even substantially slowed, without a world dictatorship-the more so as citizens of underdeveloped countries already suspect that the no-growth argument is an elitist, aristocratic, white man's conspiracy to lock them into perpetual poverty. It would do little good to stop growth in the U.S. if it raged on in Algeria and Indonesia. At minimum, people would have to be told that they could not buy the flush toilets...
...very fine rock and roll band, "Rod Stewart's super-sexist but bawdily irresistible Faces," (as Lester Bangs says in the new Ms.) But he's also a sensitive interpreter of other people's songs, and an equally sensitive writer-troubadour. He makes no preferences, even though I suspect he enjoys the band more. (But that's because I enjoy the band more...