Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, who took the case to the federal courts, asked for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Judge Cox held that the three defendants were unquestionably responsible for "the dastardly act"; as a matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
They want to be told what to believe and how to act. And they share the suspicion of Cardinal O'Boyle, who told a group of his priests recently: "You new people, you want to tear down everything and put nothing in its place...
Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, 37, argues that the new compulsion to record the process owes much to action painters like Jackson Pollock, whose huge drip canvases were a tapestry of color-and a record of the act. "Pollock had no heirs in the 1950s," says Morris. "But now people are involved with the physicality of art, in the all-overness, the aggressiveness of the medium, in, the material having its own properties...
...long way toward strengthening the position of the dollar abroad. Yet excessive zeal in combating inflation could throw the nation's economy into reverse. The new Administration, says Yale Economist Henry Wallich, a onetime economic adviser to President Eisenhower, will find that it must perform a delicate balancing act "between policies that would bring on a recession and ones that would continue inflation...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's Lands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...