Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional content that comes through on TV," says Ebert. "People can pick up a lot about the film through the exchange of feelings between two critics." Siskel too defends their TV criticism against charges that it is oversimplified and superficial: "It is the distillation between the two of us of 39 years of writing about movies...
...abhorrent or "beyond the pale" that private citizens have or should have the legal right to interrupt such speech and thereby prevent its dissemination. His position, in short, was that one may and even should decide whether or not to allow a particular speech by examining the content of that speech. Prof. Kennedy was referring, in particular, to student efforts to interfere with a speech given by South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown...
...CLUM Board of Directors consists of 40 members. They are not in unanimous agreement with every single policy of the organization, particularly policies on the cutting edge of civil liberties theory and practice, or policies having consderable political or economic content. Prof. Kennedy has told me that he recognizes that his view on this aspect of First Amendment law differs sharply from that of CLUM/ACLU--a point which he says he made clear during his speech, but which your reporter failed to note. While it is rare for a Director of our organization to disagree so sharply with so fundamental...
...even discuss it with him. I assume he has retired," the agent said. "I think he's very content to let it go. He's essentially retired...
...likely to be very productive." In each item, the statement is either incorrect or very unclear, even incomprehensible to me. The authors' pronouncements, with language like "virtually insure" or "the greater the probability," in the context of tables, numbers, probability and variables, give the illusion of science without its content. Of course, there was political instability in the Philippines before Marcos departed, and there continues to be. I do not question that. I question the pseudo-scientific context of Huntington's article...