Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that barbaric institution, the death penalty [Oct. 18]. Numerous studies have concluded that the death penalty has virtually no deterrent effect on those in a position to commit capital offenses, but it would appear that the Supreme Court has predicated its decision upon a passage from the Bible: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." What will be next, Saturday Night Live, with Chevy Chase and the execution of the week...
...Republicans may also cast an eye toward Texas, where former Governor John Connally, 59, the backslid Democrat, has his eyes on 1980. A spellbinding speaker who looks as well as talks like a President (at least a Texas-style President), he stumped the Lone-Star State with Ford and traveled nationwide on behalf of his new party's congressional candidates. Big John has many assets, including an idea (usually conservative) to match almost every problem and plenty of free time and money. But Ford's loss of Texas, on top of Connally's old wheeler-dealer reputation...
...another. Even so, Updike's old white writing magic has not lost its skill. He can still set a domestic scene, describe a sleeping child or evoke the sights and sounds of the marriage bed-and-bored sharply enough to bring a tear to the eye of the recording angel...
...palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist does not visit nature for facts but for creative suggestions, and these Gass offers in abun- dance: "Blue is the color of the mind in borrow of the body; it is the color consciousness becomes...
...place like Burlington, where politics is "eye-to-eye with everyone," that a 20-year-old college student can make...