Word: canted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost exclusively coopted it. But hip-booted, lock-'em-up demagoguery has hardly stemmed a crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a real solution. Charles Silberman's Criminal Violence, Crimal Justice strips away the cant, provides the hard facts, and finally makes it possible to think about, instead of react to, the problem of crime...
...this quality that gives Camus a solar power in times of cant and moral squalor. Unlike his fellow anti-colonialists, Camus was never willing to issue a license to kill. Of rebel atrocities he writes, "The truth, alas, is that part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved...
These rough judgments cannot wholly condemn their maker. H.L. Mencken was above and below all an entertainer who liked to shock. In the process of making errors, he freed the language from cant and proved a tonic influence on writers from Sherwood Anderson to Norman Mailer. His tragedy was in staying too long at the zoo until his fellow visitors began to notice a want of sympathy and substance. Back in 1942, Critic Alfred Kazin observed that Mencken's "conception of the aesthetic life . . . was monstrous in its frivolity and ignorance." Others soon echoed the critique. Finally, even...
...Disneyland atmosphere, the explosive controversy seemed out of place. But the heated debate about coronary bypass surgery clearly dominated the annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiology, held last month in Anaheim, Calif. TIME Contributor Gilbert Cant attended along with some 7,000 physicians and surgeons. His report...
...Anderson (Barnard Hughes). But he is away from home when the redcoats break in, and they mistake Dick Dudgeon (Chris Sarandon) for the pastor, since he is having tea with the pastor's wife. Dudgeon is the village scapegrace, a man so revolted by narrow-spirited Puritan cant that he has proclaimed himself "the devil's disciple...