Word: sufferer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...booth to be rigged with a telephone to the defense lawyer and a sound system enabling the defendant to hear the proceedings-but not be heard. The defendant would thus be reduced to pantomime protest. It sounds practical, but the larger question is what damage the judicial system will suffer if defendants in any numbers must be tried in plastic boxes...
...school board guilty of de jure segregation by building new schools, drawing new attendance districts and creating busing policies without regard for the fact that they would not achieve integration. He also moved toward blurring the distinction between de jure and de facto, contending that "Negro and Mexican children suffer serious harm when their education takes place in public schools that are racially segregated, whatever the source of such segregation may be." He ordered the board to develop a plan that would reduce the percentage of minority students in each school to no more than 15% above or below their...
...Journalism examined the handwriting on the wall. The New Journalism writes on the wall. But there is a Third Journalism whose sole preoccupation is the wall itself-the texture and structure of society. Its practitioners suffer an absence of dazzle, and their egos-like poltergeists-throw no shadow at all. But once a specific event has passed, it is their witness that shows the most significant truths and the fewest signs...
What we need first and now is to disillusion ourselves. What ails us most is not what we have done with America, but what we have substituted for America. We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in place of reality. To discover our illusions ... may-help us discover that we cannot make the world in our image...
Prejudice is as painful a fact to Indians as it is to blacks. Indians suffer just as harshly from biased history books. One text observes that "it is probably true that all the American Indian tribes in the course of their wandering lived for some generations on the frozen wastes of Alaska. This experience deadened their minds and killed their imagination and initiative." A white teacher in a Chippewa reservation school recently asked Indian children to write essays on "Why we are all happy the Pilgrims landed." Western movies and television, of course, still portray the Indian as the savage...