Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coincidentally, By Love Possessed also features a rape case, and plenty of legal technicalities. But beneath the excitements and the pyrotechnics of the law, there lies, for Lawyer-Hero Arthur Winner, "that majestic calm of reason designed to curb all passions." On publication, critics almost unanimously praised the book-and some wildly overpraised. Now a small reaction has set in, led by Dwight Macdonald, who in Commentary denounced Cozzens as a tool of the "Middlebrow Counter-Revolution.'' With much justice, Critic Macdonald ridicules the involved Cozzens style. With far less justice, he maintains-in a dubious...
...interference in Italian politics; Catholics all over the nation held parades and rallies in support of the bishop. The Vatican radio declared that "the church is being denied liberty in the exercise of its sovereign powers." In the Chamber of Deputies, a debate on a Communist-sponsored bill to curb "clerical interference in political affairs" ended in fisticuffs between the Christian Democrats and their Communist hecklers...
...last September, WTVJ happily watched the show's rating more than double. The editorials covered such subjects as obscene literature, pay TV, security at Cape Canaveral. WTVJ and many of its fellow editorializers try to follow these rules: beat the press to the draw, stick to local issues, curb negative blasting in favor of constructive suggestions...
...Curb Service. In Oklahoma City, E. G. Albright discovered how the city makes $125 a day in an overtime-parking crackdown: he parked his car at a spot where there was no meter, returned a short time later to find a ticket on his windshield, a meter in front...
...Atlantic City, NJ. two months ago by urging a voluntary one-year wage freeze to hold prices down (TIME, Dec. 16). Gray's argument for wage restraint also applies to the anti-featherbedding code: high construction costs are against the interests of building-trades workers, because high costs curb demand, and lower demand means fewer jobs...