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...experts' major complaint is that the authors dwell on personalities while slighting substance. Though the portraits of the Justices generally ring true, the authors occasionally indulge in some low blows. At one point, the book suggests that Burger, who clearly is the clerks' least favorite Justice, cares little for the disadvantaged because he instructs his own clerks to spend less time working on the often scrawled, and rarely persuasive, petitions for hearings submitted by poor people. What the authors do not say is that Burger had this work, once done only by the Chief Justice's aides...
...conceit of our age that we are the first people who ever encountered anxiety or fear or guilt." When Gomes preached on one of the year's hottest campus issues, divestiture of university investments in firms active in South Africa, he did not dwell on the politics. Instead, he spoke of the irony that the dispute underscored: the crying need for firm moral convictions in a time when universities are celebrating their "freedom from morals, values and virtues...
Considering the production circumstances and time limitations they had, I don't think these kids ruined the show. I prefer to encourage productions of my work and not to dwell on the weaknesses...
Millions of Mexicans from rural areas have fled the countryside to find work in the burgeoning industrial areas along the Texas border as well as in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City. Some 64% of the population now dwell in cities and towns. For a fortunate few, like Salvador Reyes Garcia, 28, the trip to the city has been worth it. Nine years ago, Reyes left a remote village in the Chihuahua desert for Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. There he landed a job as a sewing machine operator in a clothing factory at the minimum
About the only thing that could ruin Candide would be slow pacing. Given enough time to dwell on the frothiness of the whole thing, many audiences might become wearied with the obvious foolishness of Dr. Pangloss and company. To guard against such a reaction, Director George Hamlin has turned Candide into a three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes...