Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members," says the University of Chicago's Philip Kurland. Others believe that Justice Brennan will lead the court in certain areas, such as free speech. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz predicts great influence in some cases for Justice John Marshall Harlan, the Warren court's most frequent dissenter against the use of judicial solutions for social problems. The Burger court, more often than not, may find itself espousing Harlan's judicial philosophy, which Dershowitz says is "You don't reverse decisions no matter how wrong you think they...
Lindsay has been a visible, courageous chief executive who is always willing to put his prestige on the line for what he believes is right. His frequent television appearances, the heavy coverage of his activities in the newspapers, his refusal to fob off responsibilities on others, have invited personal blame for whatever goes wrong...
Factional fighting still flares frequently in the provinces. In Shansi, troops have had to be called in from elsewhere to still rioting. In Tibet, small guerrilla clashes are said to be frequent, and there are reports that the Panchen Lama, once considered a willing tool of Peking, has escaped from prison. In Szechwan, one of China's rice bowls, an armed group calling itself the "Red Worker-Peasant Guerrilla Column" is said to be roaming the hills. In Hunan, Chairman Mao's home province, authorities complain that "the trend of anarchism ran rampant" all last summer. In Kiangsu...
...Bible as a vague sort of cultural literature, the authors do in fact treat it as the central spiritual experience in the lives of the Hebrews, and later, in the lives of Christians. Jewish critics will be mollified by the rich Jewishness of the commentary. Rabbinical interpretations are frequent; renowned authorities like Rabbis Hillel, Gamaliel and Samson Raphael Hirsch are quoted. The Hebrews' escape from Egypt leads to a description of the Passover Seder, and the appearance of the young Jesus in the Temple is used to discuss the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah (a phrase, Christians will be interested...
...concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject is the interaction between a poetic Nature and an ugly modernity, producing a restriction on the play of light...