Word: faired
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether or not that analysis is correct or fair, commercials obviously represent the American materialist vision of the good life all the shiny possessions and luxuries that people want, or are supposed to want...
This is all to the good, because the play, though coming early in Shakespeare's career (probably 1595), is a masterpiece. It is only fair to add, however, that it owes an obviously large debt to Marlowe's magnificent Edward II, which was written two or three years earlier and which Richard II resembles in theme, structure, and numerous details. Looking in the other direction, one can say that, without the experience of fashioning here his first great tragic protagonist, Shakespeare would not have been able to create Hamlet, a closely related personality...
...reversal of the 1956 murder conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime," said Justice Potter Stewart, the underpants' "gruesomely emotional impact upon the jury...
...most nonexistent, and there are no provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to stall outrageous strikes. Still, the Royal Commission, which was headed by 70-year-old Lord Donovan, a former leader of the dockworkers, rejected proposed legal curbs on wildcat strikes. And it is fair enough to say that as long as the British labor situation remains the way it is, neither devaluation nor any other remedy will solve the country's economic woes...
Such a formula will still probably be required. The court's decision does not prevent Congress from legislating a copyright fee to protect the broadcasters and producing firms, and some CATV leaders publicly concede that this would be fair. Says Irving B. Kahn, president of TelePrompTer Corp., a cable franchise holder in New York City and Los Angeles: "We're not looking to be freeloaders. We still have an obligation to knock out a sensible and fair solution to the copyright problem." But the Supreme Court has strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners...