Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geoffrey Wolff reports in this thoughtful and very readable biography, Crosby, who was 31, had been promising for years to commit suicide. He spoke and wrote about death in the dreamy, love-struck manner of a man talking about the sloop he is going to buy when he finishes putting his kids through college. To honor death, he wore a black carnation in his buttonhole. He saw suicide as a triumphant adventure, as a poet's most splendid poem, as a giggle, as a glorious stunt and especially as an explosive union with the godhead...
...dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces a character named Jakub, a former political prisoner who believes that the only true freedom in his country is the freedom to commit suicide. To remind himself of this pathetic option, he keeps a poisoned pill with him at all times...
...PLATFORM. After some early faltering, the Ford forces proved well in control of the preconvention maneuvering over the platform. Ford's aides gave just enough to avoid a clear opening for the Reagan forces to commit themselves to an all-out floor fight on any specific issue...
...that Smith's stubbornness will result in a violent showdown with the overwhelming black majority, U.S. and British diplomats are working on a plan to purchase, in effect, white acceptance of an early peaceful transition to black rule. Still in the drafting stage, the scheme might seek to commit Britain, other members of the Common Market, the U.S. and states neighboring on Rhodesia legally, financially and even militarily to guarantee a bloodless solution to the Rhodesian problem. Rhodesia's whites and black tribal minorities might be offered a "safety net" composed of a floor price for their farm...
...probably was not. "That line between catching criminals and provoking crime was a simple principle," says University of Chicago Law Dean Norval Morris. "Now it has been blurred." Three months ago, the Burger court held by a 5-to-3 vote that if a person has a "predisposition" to commit a crime, it will be almost impossible for him to claim entrapment successfully, no matter how much inducement to the crime the Government has provided. Under the ruling, says Aryeh Neier, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, "if anyone does anything, you can say there must have been predisposition...