Word: bearing
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LESS well remembered than Lord Acton's celebrated aphorism about the corrupting effects of power is his dictum that "Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity." Carl Jung agreed that "all personal secrets have the effect of sin or guilt." These statements aptly define the attitude of a democratic society-particularly the U.S.-toward its leaders. The man in public life has a private life that is not exclusively his own. It is assumed that the people's right to know includes the right to know all, or almost...
...work with the sophistication which, if misjudged, seems like chaos. The first movement portrays the awakening of nature, the Scherzo is a boisterous landler based on first movement themes, the slow movement is a generally cheerful sylvan cortege in which forest animals, according to Mahler's expressed program, playfully bear the body of a dead hunter to his long-prepared grave, and the last movement alternates between heaven and ell, using themes from the first movement once more. This complexity of image and response reappears in every succeeding symphony: the Resurrection, for example, is a vast poem of death, vision...
...Shaw's conception, Adam and Eve are unable to bear "the terrible burden of immortality." They opt instead for a mortal span of 1,000 years, and their fallen heirs settle for progressively less. At last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam...
This year ABC's Love, American Style calls itself an anthology of sketches, with no continuing characters and no continuing story line; all they have in common is romance. Several so-called series will also bear the anthology's earmarks. NBC's The Bold Ones will have three separate casts doing 60-minute dramas dealing with doctors and lawyers. ABC's Movie of the Week will be an anthology of unrelated 90-minute dramas...
...suit for slander, without listing details of the charges or the amount of damages asked. Neither Papadoupolos nor Gruson was available for comment, but it is believed that the promoter felt his name was injured when discussions about the possibility of his producing the concerts did not bear fruit...