Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liquidate" those organizations inside Rhodesia that were associated with the external guerrilla movements. Until now, his government had boasted about its release of political detainees and the freedoms enjoyed in Rhodesia by Patriotic Front civilian sympathizers. But no more. By midweek the government had arrested more than 200 blacks thought to be linked to the guerrillas and detained them without trial. As he tried to rally his white constituency, Smith raged that Nkomo, who had readily accepted responsibility for the destruction of the Rhodesian airplane, was "a monster" who had gone "beyond the pale...
Boston does not make the kind of music that moves writers to darken the page with excerpted lyrics that snake through the columns like trenches. Scholz himself admits, "I never thought I was too good with lyrics," and the results of his struggles are at best serviceable ("And it gets harder every day for me/ To hide behind this dream you see/ A man I'll never be"). It's the music that is, well, if not wholly memorable, at least for the moment unique...
Back in 1975, Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, having looked at the early figures, felt called upon to report what most Americans thought they knew already: court-ordered busing to achieve racial balance in large U.S. cities and to ensure that more blacks and whites go to school together was causing a great deal of David Armor white flight from city schools...
From questionnaires filled out in public school classes in Toronto, University of Pittsburgh Psychologist Maria Kovacs found that 41% of the 127 children surveyed admitted having thought about suicide. A similar study conducted in Philadelphia suggests a comparable figure. Another study at U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute concluded that 5% of the 662 preadolescent children treated there over a four-year period were seriously self-destructive or suicidal. Morris Paulson, the clinical psychologist who conducted the U.C.L.A. study, found a common denominator among these disturbed youngsters: "Every one of them had a home that wasn't providing the understanding...
...Beer thought the Clamshell protests were merely counterproductive. "They're not making good sense," he said, "People just look at them and say they're a bunch of crazy longhairs. They're bigots," he said, "just like racial bigots...