Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undersigned wish to express our opinion that Professor Kilson's comments concerning the criticisms of Soc Sci 5 by black students were ill-advised. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students was duly elected and empowered to act as an advisory and investigative body for the black students of the college, by the black students. Since it has not yet made a definitive judgment of the course, any comments concerning its final recommendations are premature. Also, because faculty-student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful...
...told Damaschke to initiate adoption proceedings. Damaschke has understandably decided to appeal Streeter's ruling. He is afraid that if the probate court turns him down, Scott may be sent to another family. It seems a reasonable fear, especially since Judge Streeter had occasion to remark that "I act as probate judge when the regular judge is absent...
...reports from New Haven and Washington clearly suggest that police are violating both the letter and the spirit of Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect...
Mother is Nada Romanov, "a minor but famous writer" who collects lovers. Father is a high-trapeze-act executive, swinging smoothly from one corporation vice-presidency to another. Both are moral and parental failures. But both, like Richard, are victims as well as executioners...
...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 hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont & Stuart...