Word: tracts
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Brown is willing to declare what many others still refuse to acknowledge: that the Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program
...party, an obscure novelist and a self-described entrepreneur who lives mainly on his royalties and profits from playing the stock and futures markets. His Third Eye was an extended political essay, startlingly plainspoken by Chinese standards but relatively abstruse to Western eyes and far from a liberal tract. Even Chinese readers disagree whether its observations tend to support Deng or his radical opponents...
...between the two countries ended in a decisive victory for Peru, a treaty guaranteed by the U.S. and three Latin American countries defined disputed boundaries between the two nations. Almost half of Ecuador's previous territory was ceded to Peru, but the treaty left the 78-km tract in the jungle undemarcated when the document was ratified in 1948. Ecuadorians never fully accepted their defeat, and by 1960 the Quito government had repudiated the agreement. Minor border skirmishes have occurred ever since, usually around the treaty's Jan. 29 anniversary. In 1981 the potshots turned into a serious five...
...social tract, however, can also be a movie. Ladybird, Ladybird is a good one--more painful to watch than any slasher film, because its emotional violence literally hits home. And however close Jorge comes to being fitted for the halo worn in Boys Town by Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan, the new film rarely sentimentalizes its scorching situations...
...social tract, however, can also be a movie. Ladybird, Ladybird is a good one-more painful to watch than any slasher film, because its emotional violence literally hits home. And however close Jorge comes to being fitted for the halo worn in Boys Town by Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan, the new film rarely sentimentalizes its scorching situations...