Word: customize
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...women and sets up village conciliation boards for mending broken marriages. Such red tape will deprive the Moslem male of his traditional right to shed a wife simply by declaring "I divorce thee" three times. The plan would not abolish the ancient custom of bride price, which often amounts to ten or 20 prime cows. But it would ease the young man's burden by permitting him to pay his in-laws on the installment plan after the wedding...
Lately, he has also crossed the most sacred boundary of all: the one that separates the German literary artist from politics. By custom, Germans expect a soulful aloofness from intellectuals. Art is enduring, a thing apart, not to be contaminated by the daily, dirty round of politics. Naturally, the last thing that Germans expect of a writer is that he will paint a rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De" (for Social Democratic Party) on the side of a secondhand Volkswagen bus and vulgarly, vulgarly bounce thousands of miles through West Germany campaigning for Willy Brandt. Last summer Grass did just that...
...some minimal demands on themselves." The President senses, Nixon's aides explain, that black demands, black protests, the riots of recent years, have strained white America's capacity to accept racial change. There must be time, he feels, for acceptance of the vast upheavals in law and custom that have taken place. Clearly, there is some reason in this argument-which also happens to be politically productive for Nixon. But it is not an argument on which to base moral leadership. Nixon has a tremendous opportunity for such leadership; as a Republican President, he can do things...
...professional artist in America, the chain of denial traditionally began with rejection by art schools, extended to the awarding of fellowships, and was completed by the indifference of prominent U.S. museums. Most institutions, forbidden by law or custom to keep race records, cannot offer firm figures, but here are their best estimates of the present situation...
...Chicago, still out on $125,000 bail from California felony charges, Seale has been extradited to New Haven to stand trial, with thirteen other part members, for the murder of Alex Rackley, a Panther who had been in good standing. Given the peculiar brand of justice that has been custom-made for the Panthers (another current example of which is Judge John Murtagh's wholly illegal detention of the New York 21), one suspects that the New Haven 14 are in big trouble regardless of the evidence. Seale and his co-defendants might have to irrefutably prove their belief that...