Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politeness is not the only reason the film The Europeans lacks an analytic persona. The director, James Ivory, as well as both Wentworth and James himself are, as Wentworth states in the novel, aware that "Forming an opinion--say on a person's conduct--was a good deal like fumbling in a lock with a key chosen at hazard." As analyzing human nature can be slightly slow, clumsy and difficult on paper, so much harder is it to render it on film ready made for passive viewing in a theater. Without an insightful narrator or character who is willing...
...committed by a ruler, an emperor, he is as liable to punishment for it as the meanest and commonest of his subjects." As a precedent, one Cairo expert notes that in 1964 the late King Saud of Saudi Arabia was tried, deposed and banished by an Islamic court for conduct unbecoming a Muslim ruler-namely, drinking, gambling and womanizing...
...save money. As for curfews, Faust says: "I tell them that if they have a solid reason for staying out past 12:30, then they can stay out. They've never given me a reason." But the coach does have one firm player rule: "They better conduct themselves as Christians. That's more important than anything...
However the embassy affair ends, it is a sharp reminder of the degree to which the traditional rules of international conduct can no longer be taken for granted...
...people chosen by the Governor. In existence since 1961 to hear complaints and bring charges against wayward judges, it now found itself faced with the ultimate test, a probe of the supreme court. Under instructions from California's judicial council, the commission was required to conduct a public hearing, and it launched one last June, under the glare of television lights, after a five-month closed inquiry during which it examined documents and took depositions. For the next four weeks, five of the justices and 13 staff members presented a picture of the California Supreme Court as a place...