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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implored the court to the contrary. Don't expand the limited Escobedo ruling in ways that handcuff police interrogation, they said. Don't forget society's rights and Benjamin Cardozo's words: "Justice, though due the accused, is due the accuser also." Don't abandon "totality of circumstances" in judging whether confessions are free or coerced. Don't assume that "focus" is workable as an objective test. Don't expect judges to reconstruct just when the focus point was reached or whether the suspect really waived his rights when he talked...
...flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...
...invented because a Yankee engineer named Eli Whitney refused to accede to the European notion that even a rifle was an individual creation that could only be handcrafted by a skilled gunsmith. Later, in its relations with the rest of the world, the ever more powerful U.S. had to abandon both the Machiavellian tradition of old Europe and its own tradition of isolation; only a nation uninhibited by conventional thinking could have conceived the Marshall Plan...
Many Orthodox Jews are convinced that Christians cannot abandon this idea: implicit in Christianity is the belief that Jesus supplanted the law of Moses, and that the churches represent a new Israel. In the current issue of the quarterly Judaism, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits of Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Ill., bluntly argues that theological discourse is meaningless, since "Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism." Even though the two faiths have a Bible to share, Berkovits notes, it means something entirely different to each. For the Jew, the Hebrew Bible is complete...
...beyond the curriculum at Harvard. American secondary school systems in recent years have given increasing priority to foreign language instruction, thanks in large part to increasing strictness of college-level requirements. Were colleges to lower this standard, many school systems now accelerating or instituting more comprehensive programs would abandon such attempts. The results of such a move would be regrettable, to say the least...