Word: detriments
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...conditions that led to the May tragedy still exist." Referring to two Yippie rallies last week, the jury said: "What disturbs us is that any such group of intellectual and social misfits should be afforded the opportunity to disrupt the affairs of a major university to the detriment of the vast majority of students." Radical domination on campus will continue, the jury said, until citizens and the campus community "take a strong stand." The jury added: "The time has come to detach from university society those who persist in violent behavior. Expel the troublemakers without fear or favor. Evict from...
...punctuate scenes-a device that seems intended, for whatever reasons, to invite comparisons with Easy Rider. Occasionally, Rafelson cuts to moments back and forth in time; this invites comparisons to another, thematically similar American film, Richard Lester's Petulia -comparisons which Five Easy Pieces courts to its own detriment...
BOND: The urban centers will be black because the whites will all become suburbanites. America will be a little less polluted, but her interest in pollution will be to the detriment of other social problems. The economic gap between black and white rich and poor, will be worse or the same. American troops will be involved in prosecuting a war someplace else. Dissent of any kind against the established order will be forbidden. The police force will have developed efficient ways of immediately crushing any kind of uprising, physical or nonviolent, domestic or foreign...
...recommending approval of the request, the Planning Board's report said the 300 units "can be accommodated with out substantial detriment to the surrounding neighborhood." To increase the project's impact on the housing shortage, the report said Harvard should...