Word: antonin
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...practitioners of judicial restraint who, though disapproving of many previous liberal rulings, are loathe to overturn precedent and will net instead to prevent the extension of existing laws into new areas. The tow names most often mentioned as possible candidates, U.S. court of Appeals Judges Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, are both said to be member of the school advocating judicial restraint...
Another Reagan appointee to the D.C. Circuit, Antonin Scalia, 48, would also be on the President's short list of prospective Supreme Court Justices. Like Bork, he is an articulate apostle of judicial restraint. For example, when the appeals court last year ordered the Food and Drug Administration to examine evidence that drugs used to execute prisoners by "lethal injection" can cause torturous death, Scalia dissented, calling the decision "a clear intrusion upon the powers that belong to Congress, the Executive Branch and to the states." A Roman Catholic, Scalia is personally opposed to abortion. Both Scalia, who taught...
SPRING HAS BEEN a long time in returning to Cambridge, and all the seemingly endless darkness, clouds, and rain, fire murky, malevolent impulses find their perfect expression in the Mather House Drama Society production of Antonin Artaud's The Cenci. The little-known play, set in sixteenth century Italy, details the family problems of the slightly offbeat Duke of Cenci, who in the course of the play turns Oedipus on his ear by killing his sons and sleeping with his daughter...
...PICTURE BEGAN to look brighter with "The Leaves Are Fading," a modern ballet choreographed by Antony Tudor with music by Antonin Dvorak. Gelsey Kirkland and Kevin Mckenzie were the leading dancers in this magnificent piece that combined amazing technical achievements with a tranquillizing, Swirling scene. The dance is plotless and merely alternates different couples dancing in pairs and in groups on stage in front of a new-green act. The dancers were all costumed in gauzy, chiffon material that increased the hazy, beautiful effect Kirkland and Mckenzie performed brilliantly. They seemed to be perfectly suited to each other and never...
...Antonin Artaud...