Word: inquisitioner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I'm sure the Catholic bishops [Dec. 1] know the Prohibition amendment failed because it was unenforceable, and that to make an antiabortion law partly successful it would be necessary to revive the Holy Inquisition with the rack, wheel, auto-da-fé and burnings at the stake-all...
Even though as provost he had to enforce painful budget cuts, Wilson is popular with the faculty. He already had a run-in with leaders of the student government, however, after they told him last month that they were going to launch an "investigation" of Economics Professor Milton Friedman and...
Besides, Alioto warned, the prospect of widespread litigation "will set up an aura of Inquisition in San Francisco."
The structure of the show is that of the audition, the Spanish Inquisition of the theater. Unseen, speaking with the muffled voice of Kafka's God, the casting director asks each of the potential finalists for an accounting of his life and his love for dance and the theater...
He comes across as an extraordinarily genuine personality. Unlike the barrage of middle class suburban kids who took up guitar in the early '60s and then wrote sentimental lyrics about people they had never seen. Pete Seeger was really there. In the '30s and '40s he had travelled all across...