Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may be, but it is also true that in all three nations totalitarianism left such a scar that postwar laws were purposely soft. Only recently, to meet a full-flood epidemic of terrorism, has any of the three enacted tougher legislation. West Germany tightened its criminal laws to give police broader search and seizure powers. In Italy, under an emergency decree, terrorist prisoners can be held for up to 24 hours without access to legal...
...same is true if you go into the neighborhood delicatessen or laundry and ask about the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 'Hey, are you obeying OSHA?' And the guy behind the counter sneers, 'Osha, gosha, forget it!' If the majority of people ignore the law, it will stop the vitality of our country-the voluntarism on which it is built...
...while aspiring young stars in Europe may play 50 or more. Inexperienced coaches are also a problem. Says Cosmos Captain Werner Roth: "When I was young, a coach was someone with a station wagon and spare time, not someone with knowledge of the game." Too often, that is still true...
...such fun to go through a childhood like the one in The Nutcracker. Christmas was a big deal for us, but I never saw things this way. I never had the kind of dreams that Clara does. I was so busy working at making my dreams come true that they were never really dreams. They were aspirations...
Occasionally, Cowley's fondness for categories makes him a man of numbers instead of letters: he finds five preconditions for a literary generation, four stages in the composition of a story. But he never abandons his book's true aim: the reclamation of three underrated authors and friends: Robert M. Coates, Conrad Aiken and Erskine Caldwell. Of the trio, Coates is the least read and the most appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker...