Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Troubling Dilemma. In fact, law schools are now offering a number of courses on welfare and consumer law, and on other special concerns of the poor. Still, Negroes like Calvin Johnson, who attends Stanford Law School, criticize the traditional law curriculum. "How many blacks," he asks, "have worries about taxes...
The blacks are highly sensitive about special treatment, though many of them do need and get unusual consideration. The University of Chicago normally requires an applicant to score at least 650 (out of a possible 800) on his law-school aptitude test; but a few blacks have been admitted with...
Such are the hazards of prophecy. Yet at the start of every decade, magazines and newspapers march into print with predictions.* Sometimes, as James E. Bylin demonstrated in the Wall Street Journal last week, they make better reading at the end of the decade. Some forecasts for the '60s...
> Historian Crane Brinton, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, predicted by 1970-decidedly prematurely -the start of "plain, unblushing repression of much that our Freudian age regards as irrepressible. Indeed a partial return to public and private Victorian decencies."
> Newsweek, which devoted an entire issue to the '60s, promised "the tourist who really wants to get away from it all-safaris in Viet Nam." Alaska, Newsweek foresaw, would grow in population "from 225,000 to 500,000" (present population: 281,000). And Hollywood "will hold its own" against...