Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bell took the threat seriously. He told Williams that if Helms would plead nolo contendere (no contest)-in reality an admission of guilt-to the misdemeanors, the Justice Department would support Helms' insistence that his accumulated federal pension rights be protected, and would recommend that he not be imprisoned. This bargain was intended to ensure that no national secrets would be endangered at a trial. At the same time, it would demonstrate that the Carter Administration is in accord with Congress that even CIA chiefs are accountable to both the public...
...consists of some 59 metal objects-processional crosses, gold torques, chalices, reliquaries, brooches, bell shrines and pins-together with a group of monastic books. This magnificent show, which is scheduled to travel to museums in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Boston and Philadelphia into 1979, includes very nearly all of the major examples of early Irish art that have remained in Irish collections, a loan of unparalleled generosity. Its only fault, a too common one at the Metropolitan, is the installation-a gross Tiffany-in-Vegas effort, with each item so harshly spotlit that exaggerated shadows break up the intricate gold surfaces...
Morning at a West Coast high school. The first-period bell rings, barely audible above the classroom din. "O.K., everybody, settle down," says the soft-spoken teacher of the course called Modern Problems. Her two dozen students, grouped around seven tables, pay scant attention. She switches on a video machine by her desk; a neatly categorized outline flashes on the board...
Inside the school, the bell has barely rung when the lights...
...weight of legal scholarship opposes that inflexible view. Harvard's Derrick A. Bell Jr. scoffs that Berger "is always very certain about matters that others have been in the dark on for years...