Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roman interpretation of infallibility claims so much that it becomes irrational and unreal, and if the claim is modified it becomes meaningless...
There is no Greek industrialist class, there is no Greek capital, that's an unreal thing. In Italy there is, there's such a thing as an Italian capitalist class. The Greek capitalist class is parasitic, it's dependent upon capital, and this is very fundamental. Now, when you talk about the middle class, the shopkeeper, of course it's always conservative, it is everywhere, and that's not different in Greece, and the conservative element, this is the only element from which, I suppose, some support could have been had for this regime. But, as a matter of fact...
...those who grew up in El Monte, the present scene is all a bit unreal. Police Chief Orval Davis, a member of the force since 1938, remembers that there were only 3,600 residents and six policemen in El Monte when he was a rookie. (There are 77 cops today.) "Those are the people I identify with," he says. "Those are the people I know. We've grown so fast, I hardly know any of the new ones." Ray ("Tex") Rickerd, an oldtimer who owns the weekly Mid Valley News, does not think much of the newcomers...
...political content and intention of the students' acts were dismissed as "irrelevant." The context in which the CRR judged was not that of a modern university in its relations to the real world but rather of an idealized "academic community" founded upon archaic illusions and thus placed in unreal isolation...
...court upheld the trial judge's ruling. The nature of the statement, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was such that it carried indications of "reliability" and the possibility of its being shaken on cross-examination was "wholly unreal." Moreover, Stewart said that the testimony "was of peripheral significance at most," since 20 witnesses testified and were available for cross-examination-including another co-conspirator who described in detail the crime and Evans' part in it. Three justices agreed with Stewart; two of them, Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger, went on to argue that even...