Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circle for hours scrutinizing each other. They asked mean, menacing questions like, "Why are you being such a phony, Janet?" They aired sentiments like, "Ann, I love you no matter how s-y you are." They cried and constantly embraced one another for saying something that was especially hard to say. The faculty members had to participate in the same way-be completely frank about how they saw themselves in life, about their personal backgrounds, divorces and problems with their wives...
Civilian Rights. Enacted by Congress in 1950, the U.C.M.J. set up three categories of military trial: 1) summary courts-martial, which try only enlisted men for minor offenses that have a maximum sentence of one month in prison or 45 days at hard labor; 2) special courts-martial, which mainly try enlisted men for crimes that carry a bad-conduct discharge and up to six months in prison; and 3) general courts-martial, which handle serious crimes that can lead to life imprisonment and even the death penalty...
Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...against conscience is neither right nor safe"-as well as the defiance of Nazism by Germany's Confessing Church. Some examples of heroism are poignant: Quaker John Woolman, dying of smallpox, told his friends to "rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks." Then he added, "This is sometimes hard to come...
...those who have forgotten their Galsworthy, the first installment is hard to follow without a genealogy (see chart). It introduces 22 of the show's 120 characters with scarcely a pause for breath, then plunges into the troubled life of young Jolyon, played by Kenneth More, a black-sheep painter who scandalizes the family by setting up housekeeping with his daughter's governess, played by Lana Morris. Margaret Tyzack, as Jolyon's cousin Winifred, marries a ne'er dowell. And then there's Soames, Winifred's brother, who looks like a cross between Abraham...