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...have flocked into New York and other Northern cities, the middle class has retreated to the suburbs along with its tax and consumer dollars. Hence, even with a falling population, municipal expenses-and costly social problems-proliferate. As Lindsay's reaction suggests, cities are swept up in a vicious cycle: they require more people in order to take care of more people...
...leftist parties seek to dramatize the point that unless the government puts into practice its long-promised land reform, restless peasants will take matters into their own hands. The specter that haunts responsible Indian leaders is that next time the marchers may be led by a new and vicious political sect that has made peasant rebellion and mayhem parts of its policy...
...hard to handle" even as a baby. Later, his teacher complained that the child was hyperkinetic (overactive) and had an extremely short attention span. He was held back in second grade for failure in reading and spelling. Pressure for him to fulfill his supposed potential set up a vicious cycle in Jeremy, generating such hostility and anger that he performed more poorly than ever. He was still getting D's and F's in the third grade, and his mother took him to Dr. Sidney Adler, a neurological pediatrician. Adler had the parents fill out a 14-page...
MILLIONS of Americans in 1970 are gripped by an anxiety that is not caused by war, inflation or recession ?important as those issues are. Across the U.S., the universal fear of violent crime and vicious strangers?armed robbers, packs of muggers, addict burglars ready to trade a life for heroin?is a constant companion of the populace. It is the cold fear of dying at random in a brief spasm of senseless violence?for a few pennies, for nothing...
Though the urge to survive cannot be quenched, it seems to bring out the worst in both of them. Boesman is a vicious brute who smashes at his own fate by punching Lena, a nagging termagant who could drive a much stronger man to despair. They tell each other off, but tell the audience very little, except for long, rambling, undramatized remembrances of their atrophied past...