Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harshly with the 3,772 people arrested for looting and other crimes during the blackout. Said Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton. a black who is running in the Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ.: 67,000), suggested that the looters be given "a year of hard labor in the streets," rebuilding the stores they devastated...
Such ambitions presupposed a very grand rhetoric, which Rubens based squarely on his study of classical art. As a young man in Rome, he made a sketch of every antique marble he could lay eyes on. His vast correspondence shows that he had read and memorized work by almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead...
Some people believe, of course, that government has gone entirely too far in trying to make life fairer. The formula of best government equaling least government has vanished into the vast bureaucratic software that produces welfare, food stamps and unemployment benefits. But if government is indeed, for better or worse, promoting the health, education and welfare of the American people, why should federal help for those who seek abortions be excluded...
...have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...
...really be as poorly run as its detractors say it is? The company has always been a tempting target, partly because of its very size. Besides being New York City's biggest taxpayer ($471 million last year) and second largest private employer (25,371 workers), it operates a vast power system comprising 118,000 miles of overhead and underground wires, cables, gas mains and steam pipes, as well as 15 generating plants and battalions of maintenance crews that seem to be forever tearing up city streets. When Luce was brought in to run the company in 1967-two years...