Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time as the gloomy patron of a whore house ("It takes a good house to make a happy home," he explains lamely to Antoine). Most pathetic of all, though, is Antoine's extracurricular lover, a speechless Japanese girl whose expression of devotion is the almost casual remark. "If I commit suicide with anyone, I'd like it to be with...
...going to be stopped by glamorous, one-shot marches or demonstrations. We're not going to force the government to change its policies by getting a lot of people to mill around in the streets every now and then. What we are going to have to do is commit ourselves to a day-to-day, person-to-person struggle against this war. It won't be glamorous and it won't be fun. But we have to decide that once the banners in the Catholic U. gym go down and the basketball pictures go back up, there will still...
...Ervin sees it, a free country must take the risk that "a man who has never committed a crime may some day commit one." Lacking probable cause for surveillance, he argues, the Government has no right to secretly record anyone's attitudes toward politics, sex or religion. Ervin hopes that his hearings will lead to federal privacy legislation giving Americans a new right to know what information is being kept about them, and to rebut inaccurate data. If such a right is established, Ervin believes that a new federal agency may be needed to enforce it. In any case...
...concludes that only two deaths-Hampton's and Clark's-substantiate Garry's charge that local police departments are conspiring to commit "genocide" of the Black Panther Party...
...this country's minority groups it's about time it's extended to the female majority. Harvard, with its 10,000-man traditions, can offer no apology for its male-only past, but by implementing an equal admissions policy for the Class of '76, at least it doesn't commit itself to reenacting the sins of its fathers...