Word: collectively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the Supreme Court reversed that conviction, -thereby extending to criminal libel the same rule it laid down for civil libel in last year's Alabama libel judgment against the New York Times: public officials cannot collect for public criticism unless a statement is "made with actual malice," meaning full knowledge that it was false. Though concurring, Justice Hugo Black argued, as he has before, that "There is absolutely no place in this country for the old, discredited English Star Chamber law of seditious libel...
...over the past three months, 47 were killed and 187 captured. Last week, when Sukarno issued his customary order to "intensify" the campaign, 20 more guerrillas sailed off by sampan to Malaya and Singapore -and were soon being hotly pursued by alert British-led troops and citizens, who can collect $300 for every interloper captured. Still, Indonesia's flourishing Communist Party (3,000,000 members) insists that Malaysia must be crushed and last week added to Sukarno's troubles by inaugurating an equally absurd "crush American imperialism" drive on the pretext that the U.S. had sent a military...
Whether Mardam will actually collect his damage award, or Ben Bella the lost money, is doubtful. But the banker's release pleased the Swiss banking community. After all, if the impression got around that the legendary Swiss sock was developing holes, the new and old rich might be tempted to start taking their loot elsewhere...
...journal covers the years from 1932 to 1940 when Genet, a lazy young homosexual, ran with pimps, thieves and Foreign Legion deserters (Genet had been a legionnaire long enough to collect the enlistment money). It is a confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels...
...astounding success of the California initiative could put ideas into other people's heads elsewhere. A united front of gluemakers, for example, might collect enough votes to ban the manufacture of Scotch tape. Chrysler could war on General Motors. Whichever collected the fewest votes would die a corporate death...