Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When broad constitutional questions have been put before the Supreme Judicial court in the last few years, it has usually been careful to avoid them. When, for example, it tossed out the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath, it did so on narrow grounds which verged on the ridiculous. Now the Court has demonstrated a willingness to tackle major issues of constitutionality, and the change, if in fact it proves to be a change, is a refreshing...
...environment that is more than an act of will. The formalist traditions are giving way to something much more complex, appropriate, and exacting. At one time the environment was from, and the architect could justifiably freeze music, but today the situation is much different. The new architecture is a broad and detailed response to society. As such, it must be based on an accurate and thorough knowledge of that society, through the disciplines of sociology, economics, politics and psychology. The proposed Program for Advanced Environmental Studies seems to offer evidence that the school is very concerned with this sort...
...last two aspects of his talent are most in evidence in The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed, though the two one-acters rank among his lesser plays. Brother Jero is a broad spoof of a religious humbug, a con man of prophecy who lives by mulcting his worshipers, or "customers," as he calls them in moments of absent-minded lucidity. He preys on their hopes, fears and vices, his own trial and joy being inveterate womanizing...
Students entranced with possible investigations figure that exposure of government involvements will inspire action to end them. Hoffmann doubts it. His idea of the committee--which is no doubt shared in broad outline by Ford--provides not simply for revelations of involvement but a good deal of discussion as to what it all means...
...been curbed. In the courts, the regime lately takes more care to keep an outward show of legality, but it easily ignores the law when convenient; the party, after all, is above the law. Some dissenters against the regime have been classed as "parasites" and sent to prison under broad vagrancy laws. Others have been diagnosed as mentally ill and ordered confined in psychiatric hospitals...