Word: commitant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points a gun at another, threatens the life or lives of others on a hijacked plane or walks into a bank to commit armed robbery, and some other individual prevents this act, it is considered justified. If it is justifiable before, why not after? This is not an eye for an eye. This is doing what any reasonable, prudent human being would do to protect his fellow human beings...
During the 1960s, formalism conferred an almost messianic exclusiveness on taste. If one was "for" one kind of art, one was expected to be "against" others. Besides, a new class of collectors, anxious to commit their money only to sure bets?to what would be Historically Inevitable, to the mainstream of culture?wanted authorities. Not today. The American mainstream has fanned out into a delta, in which the traditional idea of an avant-garde has drowned. Thus, in defiance of the dogma that realist painting was killed by abstract art and photography, realism has come back in as many forms...
Gilmore's new lawyer, Dennis Boaz, a would-be writer who has acquired film and book rights to the Gilmore story, says the longtime con views a life prison sentence as "cruel and unusual punishment," and has hinted he would commit suicide if the state kept him incarcerated. Gilmore also took advantage of Utah's unique law that permits a condemned prisoner to choose between the noose and the firing squad...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, who frequently argues civil liberty cases, said Friday he believes "every rational human being should have the right to commit suicide." However, he said he is "unalterably opposed to state-run capital punishment...
...Faculty should commit some of the College's resources to getting committed and popular Faculty members to put together interesting courses under a Gen Ed umbrella. Once these professors devote themselves to it, it will be easy for students to see the merits of General Education...