Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heat of a grave political crisis, a modest man became momentarily a heroic one. Now, eight months later, Cox has returned to his book-lined office in the International Legal Studies Building at the Law School, saying little about the scandal even in his now-frequent speeches and waiting modestly for the other shoe, the one his defiance set in motion, to drop on Richard Nixon...
...imagery. His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them. What Edward Weston did for driftwood and bell peppers Ansel Adams did for mountains, rivers and rocks: recording them with a grave and highly deliberate formal density, he gave their images an extraordinary presence that hovers at the edge of abstraction. In the process he became the last practitioner of a 19th century mode-epic landscape...
...hospital. Yet in a brace of cases that could have far-reaching implications for research as well as women's rights, all stand indicted. Edelin, who performed a demonstrably legal abortion, is accused of manslaughter; his fellow physicians are charged with violating an 1814 law against grave robbing...
...weird tales of the Good People, who direct the magnetic currents of the earth, and of gnomes, or earth-spirits--a dark, stocky lot, no more than two and a half feet tall, with sorrowful round faces. Although Scottish peasants, and seventeenth century scholars before them, discussed fairies with grave respect, incredulity has since been the rule among citydwellers. Perhaps a tinge of madness inspired an apparent sympathy for fairies, as well as children, in those writers. Jonathan Cott prefaces his recent anthology of Victorian fairy stories with some ingenious "Notes on Fairy Faith and the Idea of Childhood...
...call on Nixon and tell him to go. Goldwater has steadfastly declined the role, permitting himself some tart comment on Watergate but insisting that Nixon should not quit. Last week he was ominously quiet. In private, his aides said, he is despondent. "He thinks the situation is very, very grave," reported Tony Smith, his press secretary. "For a while he thought that profanity would be the major issue in the transcripts, but now he realizes it's more than that. The issue is: why the hell did Nixon never say, 'My God, you mean to say this was being done...