Word: clarions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killers were finally caught. Mowed by technicalities and changes in the laws of admissible evidence, their trial amassed 45,000 pages of transcript, the longest in California court history. Wambaugh's narrative tends to plod whenever he plays the tireless gumshoe, hauling in facts that are, in the clarion cry of the myriad lawyers on the case, irrelevant and immaterial...
...presented with a Most Valuable Player award that could have been divided eight ways: "In the end it was our poise that held us together." Poise with a punch. The Knicks' triumph, in fact, has given the game a renewed emphasis that is echoed in the clarion call of the rabid Knick fans: "Dee-fense!" A relatively small team, the New Yorkers intimidate not by brute force but with a clawing finesse that presses the limits of the rules. Reed handled Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, for example, with muscular simplicity: he leaned against the giant like a buttress...
...While it is a tragedy that Senator Stennis was shot [Feb. 12], that is no reason for yet another clarion call for gun control. The same gun control that would supposedly remove guns from the hands of criminals would actually only take guns from honest citizens who, like Senator Stennis, are all too often at the mercy of criminals...
Shostakovich also indulges in the voguish fad of musical collage in which a new work is created partly by grafting together chunks of other composers' music. The first movement had barely begun last week when, to the chuckles of the audience, out trumpeted the clarion call from Rossini's William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger's theme in bygone days). In the lugubrious second movement came some wintry wood wind chords right out of Debussy's Jeux...
...Skinner's book seems nebulous, it is because the book is not a clarion call for a new society, only a whispered voice suggesting the possibility. If we may borrow once more from Dostoevsky, Skinner is not the architect of the Crystal Palace, merely a surveyor who says that the ground exists on which to build it. Nowhere in the course of the book does Skinner draw up a blueprint for the technology of behavior, he only states that it can be drawn up. In an unfortunate and telling comparison he likens the state of his technology to the state...