Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave their wives, boys forsake girls, fathers daughters, daughters husbands, families leave German Shepherds for dead on garbage heaps, the background turns Tulsa and Ada black and stormy with rushing gusts of leaves and swarms of swallows and locusts perch on your nose. Through magic arts we absorb the unfair burdens of our lovers' dreams...
...become increasingly accepted in recent years. Traditional restraints are breaking down. It has become easy, in this era of mass murders and daily battle reports, to intellectualize violence and the value of revolution. This is encouraged by the seemingly slow progress of nonviolent protest and the many instances of unfair and inconsistent application...
...thing can get you into an awful lot of trouble. This may be the time for reflection and figuring out the next move rather than a time of breast-beating or recrimination. When we start going backward massively, it's because things have got to be unfair or seen as unfair by an awful lot of people who are asking themselves, 'What the hell is happening...
...utter now the kind of moralistic rhetoric and vast promises that Lyndon Johnson employed as President, he would only make matters worse. There are many angry lower-middle-class whites who live on the raw frontiers of neighborhood and school integration. They feel that they are bearing an unfair share of the nation's racial burdens; unlike the upper middle class, they cannot afford to seek escape in the suburbs if their schools turn racially tense. Their taxes go up; they see blacks closing in on their neighborhoods and sometimes on their jobs. Nixon aides claim that these people could...
Although I know I am taking unfair advantage of its implication. I attribute to Auden's statement a judgment of food based on more than biological necessity. Auden, surely, is also speaking of the aesthetic possibility of gastronomy; of the question of choice in selecting food: of color and texture: of the chromatic and compositional problems of preparing a meal, of arranging a plate. Auden's statement betrays an artist's eye for the forms of the physical world as well as a sensitive palate...