Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This underground activity burst into public notice this spring when pistol-packing ex-Marine Alexander Joseph, 39, led 12 of his wives and 15 other families-all members of Joseph's Church of Jesus Christ of Solemn Assembly-to establish a settlement on a 2,000-acre tract of federal land in southern Utah. Before the Bureau of Land Management began proceedings to evict them, they had put up ten buildings, started a dam and planted vegetables. A federal court is now deciding whether they are homesteaders or simply squatters...
...flux and the process of "normalization" that gives the plot a somewhat schematic cast. Tanner takes trouble to establish the class differences between the two lovers, but he is better at dealing with sexual politics than theoretical ones. The Middle of the World is truer as object lesson than tract, better on the realities of love than the stalled struggle of the classes...
...evidence, Cuddihy presents "On the Jewish Question," Marx's still controversial essay about the economic behavior of the Jews. Many scholars have seen it as an anti-Semitic tract. To Cuddihy, on the contrary, it is a description of the Jew as the universal capitalist whose "worldly God" is money. The Gentile capitalists worshiped the same God, except that they affected a veneer of civility as "a figleaf for the cash nexus ... The civilities are a kind of games goyim [Gentiles] play...
...territory in Cyprus, even Uganda. But Israel remained his true destination. It was an idea more than a place. Elon's index includes the category "Arab situation (Palestine), Herzl's ignorance of." Yet his instincts were empathetic. When a great Arab landowner offered to sell a huge tract, Herzl was reluctant to buy. "We cannot displace these poor fellahin, "he explained...
...Director Floyd McKissick, may indeed have nothing to hide-although critics question how some $5 million in federal funds have been used on the project. But Soul City, which now consists of a few roads, some mobile homes and a nearly completed industrial building on a 5,180-acre tract 50 miles from Raleigh, may have something to fear. If it follows the pattern of most other Government-aided new towns scattered across the nation, it faces deep financial troubles...