Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sam Hobbs again persuaded the Judiciary Committee to report out his bill, this time without hearings; labor demanded it be sent back to committee for "better advised action." Said Hobbs: "Crime is crime, no matter who commits it; robbery is robbery and extortion is extortion, whether the perpetrator has a union card in his pocket...
...TIME should be impeached for sloppy usage. Impeachment means "a calling to account for some high crime or offense before a competent tribunal." President Johnson was impeached but not ousted...
...destruction of the tradition of the liberal arts at this crisis in our history ... would be a crime comparable, in my opinion, with the burning of the books by the Nazis. . . . Burn your books-or, what amounts to the same thing, neglect your books-and you will lose freedom as surely as if you were to invite Hitler and his henchmen to rule over...
...Catholic Church does have a court of men - the Sacred Roman Rota at the Vatican - of whose yearly cases 85% concern marriage. Divorces are not granted; annulments sparingly given. Last year the Rota heard 87 cases, granted 29 annulments. Some grounds for annulment: defect of age, impotence, abduction, crime (adultery, homicide or both...
Playing variations on this theme, Dr. Hanson implied connections between dissonance and passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...