Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitutional amendment providing for the early election of a new head of state. To virtually all parties, Franjieh's replacement is an essential prerequisite to any political settlement. Indeed, before Franjieh ended his holdout last week, Moslem Leftist Leader Kamal Jumblatt had issued a grim ultimatum: he would form "a revolutionary government" and "liberate" Christian strongholds unless the President left office...
...Whatever form they take, and there are several, gag orders ban reporters from printing information they have discovered themselves, or that is publicly available-and occasionally even prevent reporting the fact of the gag itself. Explaining the need for the Simants action last week, Harold Mosher, Nebraska's assistant attorney general, argued that "temporary restraints on First Amendment freedoms are permitted in extraordinary circumstances where no other means exist to protect other fundamental interests." The basic right of a defendant to keep inadmissible evidence from a jury during a trial is clearly infringed if the press has presented such...
...that do not accord with orthodox analysis are jettisoned; Disney's version of Snow White, for example, is psychologically useless to the child because each dwarf has a separate name and a distinctive personality. This "seriously interferes with the unconscious understanding that they symbolize an immature, pre-individual form of existence which [the heroine] must transcend...
...outward form, David Rabe's trilogy of military plays, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, and now Streamers, appears to be about the brutalizing effect of army life and the scourge of Viet Nam on the U.S. conscience. In inner content, they are more like detonations of the individual psyche -a simple soul goes berserk...
...authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers is strictly that, or is simply a masked form of his own desire...