Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...raft from Ecuador to Australia to prove that American Indians could have sailed across the Pacific. American B-52 bombers once again flew missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail to stem a North Vietnamese buildup in the Demilitarized Zone. Ralph Nader was locked in another safety battle with General Motors. The WAVES got a new chief, the eighth in their history, Commander Robin Quigley. The holiday season's first gift suggestion for the patriot who has everything was marketed by a California firm: the All-American candle that when burned gives off the scent of (Right...
...possible to argue that the results would have been roughly the same no matter what Nixon did or what he might have done. Only in one sense were the voters predictable this year: the polls did fairly well in forecasting the outcome of various races. But in general, it was an election of patterns broken and theories confounded. TV blitzes had less impact than predicted. Racial tension did not prevent black victories. Despite the tendency to turn out incumbent state officeholders, voters treated their U.S. Representatives kindly. The electorate was simply not of a mind to be stampeded...
...letter from Dr. Mary Howell, instructor in Pediatrics at Mass. General Hospital, proposed that the University pay subsidies to parents to arrange their own care, but one speaker alone questioned the value of any form of day care...
Surely no two phenomena could be more incompatible-in the abstract. The abstract being that two-dimensional landscape of rhetoric and copulative verbs that permits such phantasmagoria as the preceding paragraph. Bitter tears, dear reader, on my copy of What Is Cinema? Open City, Voyage to Italy, General Della Rovere, and now The Rise of Louis XIV: there is something in the anonymity of Rossellim's aesthetic, beyond abstraction or mere being, which resists the a priori...
Chavez then called for a general strike against lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley, and picket lines were organized...