Word: express
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have worked as the Stepped-down film which Boorman fashioned were it not for the performance of Jon Voight as Ed. is the film's rock of common sense: his reactions give the film a base on which its audience can stand. Voight's eyes and stance manage to express naivite, moral and physical shock, the hard intent of a man who must reach a pinpointed goal, and the penance of a killer reawakened to humanity. Without him, the swagger of an uncontrolled Burt Reynolds as the uncontrollable Lewis, and the inordinate weakness in Ronny Cox's Drew, might have...
...idea of "a restoration of faith in government" recurs, a vaguely spiritual impulse focusing on confidence and trust. If Nixonians talk of what is "right with the country," McGovernites almost by definition are impelled by a sense of what is wrong with it and what could be better. They express a sense of the U.S. gone awry, of government wrested from the people to serve unholy ends?a war the people did not want, or corporate privilege...
...difficult to prove, the committee would change the wording to that which would "outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large." It would then be up to juries to decide on contemporary standards. "Justice may be fallible," Lord Longford admits. "But opinion does express itself to the times through the jury." The report also urged that heavier fines and jail sentences be meted out and that it "be illegal to show children under educational auspices any material which may not be shown in a public place...
...Dissolve (Belknap Press, Harvard; $15), Lawyer-Philosopher John T. Noonan Jr. indicates that the church's conception of what makes a marriage null has been fluid rather than fixed throughout the eight-century evolution of canon law. Writes Noonan: "Neither the theoretical construct of marriage nor the express texts of Scripture, neither the absence of precedent nor the desire for uniformity, has barred innovation in the past." Noonan speaks for many Catholics when he says that the evolution should, and will, continue...
Nahmabadi, one of only three women graduate students in the Physics department, said that many of her female students in past years had not felt free to ask or answer questions in predominantly male sections. These women would be "emotionally freer" to express themselves in an all-female section, Najmabadi said...