Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuse him of being disloyal to a pluralist, democratic society. Clancy, on the other hand, attacks those Catholics who are trying to "impose on the public values that, in this time and place, have become private values," as is often the case in censorship fights. Such Catholics, says Clancy, "act as though the last few centuries had never happened." Both Clancy and Cohen agree that the Jacobins, as well as the extreme advocates of "religious establishment," are enemies of the free society, that both seek to make "the law a weapon against heresy...
...report generally agrees that legal action cannot excuse all concerned from using their brains and consciences. So far as the law can act, however, Mark de Wolfe Howe, Harvard law professor (and a nondenominational Protestant) has some significant suggestions. He seems far less worried by the religious partisans than by the Jacobins. He notes that there are a number of possible "aids to religion which do not appreciably affect the religious or other constitutional rights of individuals." Under the First Amendment, he feels, even such aids should not be offered by the Federal Government. But he thinks that state governments...
...Copper, now being produced at 950,000 tons annually, has an excess capacity of about 350,000 tons; moreover, producers hold high inventories of refined copper. Government guarantees for 120,000 tons have a ceiling price of 28? per lb., which will probably act as a barrier to any major price rise...
...another year at least. FCC will issue no permits for toll systems until next August, will give Congress plenty of time to act on several pending bills to outlaw paid video...
...yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made the English more earnest. Yet there are still, I think, people who behave oddly. The Duke of Kent is always...