Word: bent
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...years to revise the code, only to be thwarted by philosophical wrangling. Two attempts in the early 1970s, the so-called S. 1 bill and another measure drafted by the Nixon Administration, collapsed under the plaints of civil libertarians, who objected to the proposals' strong law-and-order bent. Then came S. 1437, known as "Son of S. 1"; a less harsh version of the original, it passed in the Senate but died in committee in the House. Now there is S. 1722, or "Grandson of S. 1," a 440-page epic whose chief sponsor is Massachusetts Senator Edward...
...this conviction by being booed at performances, an experience that he shrugs off: "No response at all would be worse." Once, in Vienna, a Stockhausen score called for him to strike a row of keys with his arm and hold them down for 30 seconds. As Pollini remained bent motionless over the keyboard, a whisper came from the first row: "He is exhausted...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON doesn't buy the New Pessimism of the seventies. He doesn't believe the credo of the inevitability of poverty or inequality. Harrington's attitude is either naive or refreshing, depending on your political bent. Reading his book, however, is sort of like plunging into ice-cold water on a hot, lazy day--an initial shock, recoil, and then invigoration. For Harrington offers a seductive programme, a rejection of the seventies' acquiescence to in-justice. He tries to persuade us to hope again...
National Christian Action Coalition. This behind-the-scenes brain trust researches the issues on behalf of the above groups and others that are emerging. Naturally many Evangelicals of a more liberal political bent are nervous about the new muscular Christianity. Candidate Anderson, who has always urged the devout to get involved in politics, says, "I never believed they would interpose specific doctrine to reward or punish candidates. That totally violates the role the church should play." Anderson has probably been hurt somewhat by religious right-to-lifers...
Beth Israel Hospital may join Affiliated Hospitals, Inc., which includes the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, the Hospital for Women and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...