Word: treating
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...enormous egos. Like Bailey, Fort is an author and lecturer; like Bailey, he has been criticized for his style and methods. In 1967 Fort was fired by the city of San Francisco as director of the Center for Special Problems because officials claimed he was incorrectly using funds to treat hippies with drug problems. In recent years, Fort has operated mental health and drug-treatment programs in the city. Fort also has been in quite a few courtrooms, appearing as a witness in some 270 trials, including those of Charles Manson and Timothy Leary...
...question [Safeway's] right to sell what they please," said Publisher Garth Hite. "But it is kind of depressing to think that they would treat ideas as if they were mere bottles of catsup...
...Both sweet and sizzling, this loosely structured show is a song and dance ramble. During the edgy militant '60s, any black who danced was regarded as a toe-tapping Uncle Tom, and any black who sang was regarded as an evangelical sponge. What a treat it is to see blacks singing and dancing as if those skills were not blemishes on intellect or race but blessings of body and voice...
Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign exploits one of the worst features of American politics--the tendency to treat political issues as if they were not political issues at all, but simply questions of personality and efficient administration. "I will never tell a lie," Carter avows with metronome-like regularity. "I will never make a misleading statement. I won't avoid a controversial issue. I promise never to embarrass you. If I ever do any of these things, then you shouldn't support me. I don't deserve your support...
Only Fred Harris has attempted to provoke meaningful discussion about the distribution of economic and social power, to treat American politics in class terms. But Harris's substantive programs are not very different from the rest of the liberal candidates, and his neo-populist perspective often leads him to propose anachronistic solutions which would not bring about the far-reaching changes his ideology points to. But the terms of analysis that Harris has used in his campaign are a refreshing antidote to the politics of anti-political deception, fear, and hatred that have so far dominated the 1976 presidential campaign...