Word: harolds
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...first achieved prominence of sorts in October by publicly burning his draft card, last month became the first American to be convicted of transgressing a 1965 law making that act a felony. Last week he came up for sentencing in New York's Federal District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain a new draft card, carry...
Psychology and anthropology are inclined to see America as a nation of spoiled children. "Americans want immediate satisfaction," says Manhattan Psychologist Harold Greenwald. "The car buyer can't wait a week for his car." Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Sandor Lorand: "Patience is just another quality Americans forfeit when they live in this pressure cooker. From the day the child starts school, he is under pressure. No wonder he grows up impatient-first with others, then with himself...
...amazing thing is he writes for television. Admittedly the BBC, but nevertheless television. It hasn't harmed Harold Pinter. The techniques he uses in TV plays--single sets, detailed direction in the text, careful use of props a camera can highlight, dialogue better suited to facial expression and subtle bodily movement than to sweeping action--have carried over into his longer plays like The Caretaker to produce a fascinating televisionary theatre...
Although familiar allegiances of class, or age, or sex still tie blocs of voters to one of the two great parties, most observers agree that the electorate in the crucial marginal constituencies will be swayed by their impression of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, or his rival, Edward Heath, Tory party leader...
...sure, it is certainly arguable whether the Labour prescriptions for the economy are as dynamic as their leader. But in this campaign it may not matter; in a period of uncertainty and unpolarized politics the advantage is with the incumbent-- especially if he is Harold Wilson...