Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embattled and once only partially united original states in order to remind us and all that we ourselves about two centuries ago were shaped in a sneaky fencerow guerrilla warfare that enraged the minuetlike martial formations of the Redcoats. It is an irony of American history, as we approach the two hundredth anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, that we should find ourselves as a nation half George III, half Edmund Burke, on the issue of a distant colonial people, who are not even our colonists or distant kinsmen...
...apples from a barrel." Yet most Middle Americans would find repression incomprehensible and intolerable, a violation precisely of the American values they cherish. Certainly, a species of Know-Nothingism is evident in the U.S. But, as Harvard's Seymour Martin Lipset points out, the reaction does not begin to approach the tenor of the '20s, when many Government leaders preached a blatantly anti-immigrant racism...
...total of more than 35 years in jail), Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, a tired, sick old man of 68, was ready with some wistful reminiscing of his own. "People don't seem to want to work hard for anything any more," said Willie. "Years ago, cons used to approach me in various prison yards and ask me to lay out a bank job for them. But not lately. These young kids don't believe in hard work." Though Sutton's own hard work may have netted him as much as $2,000,000, all he had when...
...Stewart has concluded that the D.W.I, offender is generally an individual under pressure, anxious about financial or domestic troubles. He is so wrapped up in his own worries that he cannot comprehend the reasons for society's concern with drunken driving. Because of this picture, Stewart's approach now includes more counseling. "Sympathy, insight and patience," he says, "are the keys to working with a person in this state of mind." So far, the project has been an impressive success. Of 2,000 graduates since 1966, fewer than ten of them have been rearrested in Phoenix...