Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOFORS GUN. Actors David Warner and Nicol Williamson make this static film about life in the postwar British army into a realistic antimilitary document...
...York's trouble began after a neighborhood governing committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily transferred teachers because they were supposedly trying to sabotage the experiment. The committee was never able to document its harsher charges, but it stubbornly refused to back down, and hired its own nonunion instructors. The city's central school board finally suspended the Ocean Hill committee and its administrator, Rhody McCoy, because it refused to return the unwanted teachers to their regular duties. The move seemed to ease the crisis. The teachers were grudgingly accepted in seven of Ocean Hill...
With his prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
...what is dramatically permissible, but many of his predecessors have been less enlightened. George Bernard Shaw once complained that the Lord Chamberlain "robs, insults, and suppresses me as if he were the Czar of Russia. I must submit in order to obtain from him an insolent and insufferable document [the license] which I cannot read without boiling of the blood...
Britain's 26 Roman Catholic bishops produced an artfully worded document that stressed obedience to the Pope's decree but also had kind words for those who cannot accept its teachings. The bishops cautioned that "if we are to neglect the guidance of the church, morality could easily become merely subjective. That would be disastrous." They also affirmed that "neither this encyclical nor any other document of the church takes away from us our right and duty to follow our conscience." They noted the dilemma of "faithful couples" who cannot easily support another child, and of wives whose...