Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to some lawyers, the way in which Hoffman issued the contempt sentences constituted an evasion of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in Bloom v. Illinois. In that case, the high court ruled that a man who faces a substantial sentence (six months in federal trials) on a contempt charge has a right to have his case heard by a jury. As critics saw it, Hoffman thought he could avoid the jury requirement in Scale's case by handing down 16 separate sentences-none of them as long as six months...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
Frustrated Talent. The recruiting of the generals and colonels coincides with a basic change in the government's economic thinking. Israel's Zionist founders scorned commerce and were more interested in agriculture and socialist ideology than in industry. Thus the Jewish talent for business was late to bloom in Israel. Civilian managers often lacked the skills to run modern industrial corporations or to deal with foreign investors on anything like equal terms. Lately, the government has concluded that Israel's future security depends almost as much on a strong economy as on a tough army. Last year...
...than it was when the "republic" was proclaimed 24 years ago, but politically as well as economically, progress has been scant. Writers and artists are limited by political requirements; a brief attempt at liberalization in the late '50s, patterned after Mao's short-lived campaign to "let 100 flowers bloom," uncovered so much resentment that repression was reinstituted almost immediately. Ho, however, was never blamed for repression: skillfully, he divorced himself in the public mind from that harsh entity known as government. As British Journalist James Cameron put it, the people seemed to say: "This or that is a damn...
...deferential addition for the American viewers, though: a brief epilogue and tidy ending, showing the Caine and Calder-Marshall courtship heading for consummation, probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Claire Bloom. It is scheduled for NBC in January. Owen refuses to comment on whether NBC has asked them to milk down ("Pastoreize," in TV slang) Female for Americans in this season of censorship...