Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeanne C. Kettleson, assistant dean of the Law School and one of the signers, said yesterday that "the tone rather than the content" of the ad "became the issue" and that its "strident appeal" discouraged several professors from signing...
...content of the objectionable material varied widely. Some parents demanded that this selection from Jump Rope Jingles and Other Useful Rhymes -a supplemental text for poor readers in junior and senior high school-be banned because it taught disrespect for authority...
...complacence about politics, even though he maintained to his death that "human time is a city/where each inhabitant has/a political duty/nobody else can perform." But in his later work Auden is no longer interested in defining that duty, or even in dramatically exhorting anyone to perform it. He is content to inhabit the realm of "common-sense" and its unrevolutionary complement, "tall stories...
Auden was always more interested in experimenting with syntax than with things like meter and stanza and he was content to pour his unusual grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long...
...landmark study on pre-trial publicity recommended a series of guidelines for lawyers and law officers, forbidding attorneys, for example, to release any opinion or information on a pending case that might interfere with a fair trial, including the defendant's previous record or the existence or content of confessions. Reardon points out that the standards are for lawyers, not journalists. "The press," he says, "is at liberty to write whatever it chooses, but it ought to be responsible enough not to print all it gets...