Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, of course, a widely held belief that the Senate should not deny a presidential appointment unless the individual in question can be proved to have grave and tangible disqualifications. That is more appropriate for Cabinet members and ambassadors than Supreme Court Justices. Certainly a President is entitled to choose the men who will work for him-though the Constitution gives the Senate a veto power. But a Supreme Court Justice serves the nation, not the President, and, unlike political subordinates, usually remains on the bench long after the man who nominated him has retired...
Last week a new Sakharov essay was circulating in Moscow.* In it, Sakharov warned that unless the Soviet Union changes drastically, it will be unable to solve its grave problems. Citing such signs as a rise in alcoholism and drug addiction as symptoms of Russia's malaise, Sakharov wrote: "At the end of the '50s our country was first in the world to have launched the Sputnik and send a man into space. At the end of the '60s we have lost our leadership, and the Americans have become the first to land on the moon...
...March 25 meeting and the docket for the April 14 meeting includes a resolution-to be proposed by Rosenblatt-saying "the Faculty regards it as implicit in the language of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...
...Once the legislature had passed the bill, it was submitted to the governor. The bill could have been become law without Sargent's signature, which would have allowed the governor to indicate moderate disapproval with the bill's content. As Sargent explained when signing the bill, although he had grave reservations as to its constitutionality, he generally supported the right of the people to have this matter decided by the nation's courts. He was, therefore, not opposed to the bill and was not about to use his gubernatorial veto power. In his statement to the press while signing...
Trimalchio, having thus in one evening satiated every imaginable desire of the will, decides that the time has come for him to meet his makers. He rehearses his death once, and then is gone, leaving Encolpius and a weeping Mrs. Trimakbio at his grave. Mrs. Trimalchio looks up and into Encolpius's dilated blue eyes. And soon they are entwined there by the grave. Mrs. Trimalchio concludes, "Better to hang a dead husband than lose a living lover," but Encolpius is beginning to come apart, to lose himself sexually. At this point, he is estranged from himself only emotionally...