Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others, they seem bent on coddling criminals, abolishing God and undoing the U.S. political system. This week the Court begins its 175th year with even some of its best friends worried about its wide-ranging attack on social ills that are supposedly the business of Congress and state legislatures. Can the Court cure them by proscription-and survive the reaction...
...stormy Court-centered argument thunders in a different vocabulary these days. No longer are the Justices automatically split between liberals said to be bent on destroying big business and conservatives accused of old-fashioned economics. No longer is the Court derided as a collection of nine old men too fragmented in their opinions to be relied upon to set national standards. The present split is between those who believe in "judicial restraint"-men who feel that real power should reside with elected officials and that the Court may eventually destroy itself by assuming too much-and so-called "judicial activists...
Otherwise, Lovely War might have been merely an arid anti-war tract. At first, the flip, saucy cast seems bent only on deriding the crippled bodies, the eroding corpses, the eyes of anguish that stare from still shots on the drop screen with enormous dramatic pathos. But by a subtle transference, the men on the stage become the suffering men on the screen, and their bitter jests testify to the resilience of man, a creature who laughs in order to endure the unendurable...
There can be little doubt that the program has been bent by these winds of change. Most importantly, the distinction between Gen Ed and departmental courses has been blurred. In the Natural Sciences, where Nat Sci 5, 9, and 10 serve as basic departmental courses, it has been obliterated. Not only is the content of Gen Ed no longer shared, but it is something of a hodgepodge--at once methodological and historical, quantitative and qualitative in emphasis...
Mostel plays Tevye, a poor dairyman by trade and a Jewish cracker-barrel philosopher by bent. Tevye has five unmarried daughters on his hands, a strident wife (Maria Karnilova) at his elbow, and God's voice in his inner ear. He quivers before his wife and quips with his God. He plans to arrange his daughters' marriages in the time-honored way. They plead love. "Tradition," thunders Tevye, stabbing the air with an irate prophet's forefinger and then lowering his hand like a falling leaf, in wry self-mockery. The eldest daughter marries a tailor without...