Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, the New Yorker ran a "Comment" by Stephen Schiff that compared television talk shows to the geek shows of the 1920s. What characterized these precursors of Sally Jessy Raphael was the geek, "who distinguished himself by his willingness to commit the most loathsome and humiliating acts onstage--commonly, biting the head off a live chicken.... What had gone out of kilter in him was not a hormone or a chromosome, as in the case of the bearded lady or the midget, but the capacity for shame...
Words and actions are very different, as any mature human should know. It strikes me as extremely immature then to write that "those who promote violence need to be punished regardless of whether or not they are actually carrying out violent actions themselves." Once a free society begins to commit violence against the speeches of madmen, then that society is no longer free, but in an of itself mad, unable to distinguish between ideas and reality...
Israel must address the symptoms of its problems, the causes that let madmen commit violent acts. It must continue in a free and open discussion, so as to quell the irrational worries and fears of the radical right. Without this two-way discussion, the radicals will assume that dialogue is hopeless, and will resort to increasingly drastic acts...
...will not commit to moving until we are sure that the funds [to build the Humanities Center] have been raised, but we are going on the working assumption that construction will indeed begin second term," Thaddeus said in a note sent to concentrators this week...
...investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President denies. Deputy President F.W. De Klerk has said if Malan is prosecuted, Modise should lose his immunity and be tried for ordering ANC guerrillas to commit 'deeds of terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says, "The general was asking for no favors. He would have his day in court, he declared, because he was innocent of the charges against him and he would prove it. The action against him, he said, showed that 'democracy was moving into...