Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Awaiting the Johnsons at the ranch was some good news. Across the Pedernales River from the ranch, local promoters had been planning to set up a kind of tourist trap with curio shops and snack bars, motels and filling stations...
With Sex as Liberator and the "Organized System" as current World Historical Process, Goodman has written Compulsory Mis-education, an angry little book. It maintains that education in this country at all levels is, for the most part, "positively damaging." He writes, "the compulsory system has become a universal trap, and it is no good. Very many of the youth, both poor and middle class might be better off if the system simply did not exist, even if they then had no formal schooling at all." As for the people who run American education, Goodman says, "the goal...
...film festival is an esthetic booby trap fraught with perils. It can be little more than a lure for cinesnobs who like to see important movies before the public does. It can be the cause of ulcers and chronic hangover among bleary international delegates who traipse the circuit year after year, vying for palms, cups, lions and laurels at more than 100 festivals from Valladolid to Venice, from Karlovy Vary to Knokke-Le-Zoute. But it can also be the crackling excitement of the new cinema giving birth to authentic genius...
Moses rises from the back of the church. He states that he believes the administration will try and trap the MFDP by offering a new compromise. "They promised," continues Moses, "to abolish segregation in Mississippi politics. I asked Humphrey if that meant the federal government would aid in voter registration. 'Those are two seperate matters,' he replied...
Moses rises from the back of the church. He states that he believes the administration will try and trap the MFDP by offering a new compromise. "They promised," continues Moses, "to abolish segregation in Mississippi politics. I asked Humphrey if that meant the federal government would aid in voter registration. "Those are two seperate matters,' he replied...