Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this article were an isolated incident, it would perhaps not necessitate comment. But such blatantly discriminatory articles (most of which go unchallenged) make one wonder about the way history has been written, where certain agents of history, such as women, are invisible to the male chroniclers...
CRIME IS the most visceral of issues: small wonder that the Right has almost exclusively coopted it. But hip-booted, lock-'em-up demagoguery has hardly stemmed a crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a real solution. Charles Silberman's Criminal Violence, Crimal Justice strips away the cant, provides the hard facts, and finally makes it possible to think about, instead of react to, the problem of crime...
...predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed the never-give-up Stassen: "We are going to rebuild the Republican Party in Minnesota." Stassen, 71, was so buoyed by his old party's rebirth that he promptly announced he would run again...
...changes. An equally significant clause promises that whites will retain control of the national army, police force, and civil service for at least ten years. Blacks will get the vote on an unrestricted basis for the first time in Rhodesian history, but the rest of the agreement makes one wonder what they will be able to do with that vote...
Cavileer adds: "I don't think the participants get as much out of it as they used to either. Sometimes I wonder whether it's worth all the effort to go out recruiting. Coach Harlow once said to me that it would bemore fun if we just took the boys who came to the college who really wanted to play ball...