Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TODAY, Sennet writes, "we remain under spell of the Romantic performers' code that art transcends text, but we lack their passion, and a certain innocence with which they took themselves so seriously." Writing The Fall of Public Man, Sennett must have hoped that some of that innocence would return. But his fresh perceptions on fashion and theater are overwhelmed by the inconsistencies of his argument. And Sennett is left a dandy in the most embarrassing position of having nothing...
...PROTOTYPE of the New Woman is Anna, Lancelot's next-cell neighbor, who was shocked into catatonia by brutal rape. Lancelot is able to uncoil her after six months in her reactionless fetal position by knocking in code on the wall, to which she finally responds. Stripping down communication to the most basic level is a favorite Percy theme. It is part of Lancelot's Romantic notion that Anna has transcended the violence that confronted her and thus is capable of becoming the New Woman...
This comedy was written by a Harvard-educated lawyer and first presented in 1906. The play is surprisingly un-spavined by age. It is the genre to which it belongs that has disappeared. Social comedy based on the code of an assured upper class has withered away with the democratization of that class and the loss of its role as the arbiter of manners...
...federal laws on crime, passed piecemeal by various Congresses, have never been systematically overhauled since the beginning of the Republic. Scattered through nearly every part of the 50-title U.S. code, they are sometimes laughable. For example, deflecting a Government carrier pigeon is a federal misdemeanor. They can also be unfair. Two men committing identical bank robberies can receive wildly differing sentences from different judges...
This month a sweeping new version is expected to be introduced in Congress by Senator McClellan and a surprising new partner, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. McClellan, 81, the crusty dean of congressional crime fighters, badly wants a criminal-code reform bearing the McClellan name before his expected retirement next year, and the compromise package negotiated over six months by aides of the two Senators is a far cry from the old Sl. "It's a net gain for civil liberties," an enthusiastic Kennedy told a House judiciary subcommittee last week...