Word: earl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaks for the Jews." Earl Shorris declares as an introduction to his attack on Jewish neoconservatives. But he is wrong. Jews everywhere feel compelled to speak about what it means to be a Jew Shorris, in fact, considers himself an expert and rambles expansively on the law, history and lore of his faith. Of chief concern to the author are those thinkers whom he accuses of speaking for the Jews without permission and with a perverted sense of Jewish ethics...
Opposition to the new law was sharp and quick. "Patently unconstitutional," declared Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Educational Association. Earl Potts of the Alabama Baptist Convention objected on different grounds. Said he: "We need prayer in the public schools, but I don't think the government should provide the prayer to be used. What legislators are not realizing is that the government could become more involved in prescribing what its citizens should be doing...
...shocked once to find her sitting at Howe's.feet as he stroked her hair. "No form of love is to be despised," Eleanor once copied into a diary, and the truth seems to be that she successfully conducted her sentimental friendships as if sex did not exist. Earl Miller, F.D.R.'s handsome bodyguard when he was Governor of New York, was another such friend; Lorena Hickok seems merely to have been the most important of Eleanor's attachments. By the time their friendship was cooling, in the early war years, the First Lady had two other favorites...
...decades earlier, another great critic, James Agate, reviewing a production of I Henry IV, stated: "Shakespearean history is like beer; some is better than other some, but none is bad. I could sit for hours and listen entranced to such cataloguing as: 'Of prisoners, Hotspur took/Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son/To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,/Of Murray, Angus and Menteith.'" I doubt that there are many who would agree with Tynan, and I'm sure precious few would echo Agate...
...Death Exception. Earl Enmund, now 50, was waiting anxiously at the wheel of the getaway car in 1975 when his accomplices got into a gun battle and killed an elderly couple they were robbing near Wauchula, Fla. His partners might be liable to the death penalty in Florida, but could Enmund be? Because he helped out in the robbery, Florida law held him responsible for the killing by his partners, and he was sentenced to death. His lawyers argued, however, that capital punishment for an accomplice who was not at all involved in the shooting violated the Eighth Amendment...