Word: forbids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is a story of growing-up, specifically O'Neill's development into adulthood-remembered from the healthiest light. The father is understanding, rather than a bourgeois drunk, the mother's tender loving care melts in your mouth, and young love triumphs over nastiness, brutality, and even, God forbid, prostitution. It is O'Neill's salute to the Catholic morality in which he was raised, but that morality has all the abiding qualities of an ice cube in August. And the editing in this production only keeps any virtue that is in the text of the play itself from surfacing...
...related decision last week showed less respect for the states' jury standards and threatened to worsen court congestion. In New York City's criminal courts, there is now a backlog of about 500,000 cases. The backlog would be even worse if a unique statute did not forbid jury trials in these courts. Instead, such cases are tried by speedier single judges or, if the defendant wishes, by three-judge panels. Robert Baldwin, charged with "jostling" (pickpocketing), was convicted by a single judge and sentenced to one year in prison. He appealed, relying on a two-year...
Americans have long respected those whose moral convictions forbid them to bear arms against their fellow men. When it comes to military conscription, though, the legal question is how to set a standard that exempts only sincere conscientious objectors-not mere draft dodgers...
...forbid that we should have violence. God forbid that we should disturb the slumber of rational discourse on Capitol Hill. God forbid that we should...
that the University Statutes be amended to allow students to sit on committees which consider student disciplinary cases (the Fifth Statute has been interpreted in the past to forbid the Faculties from delegating their disciplinary power to dismiss students...