Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of all these failures, however, lawyers play ever more important roles. Less and less are they society's servants, more and more the masters of its machinery. That trend is not likely to be halted until clients insist on retaining greater control of the direction of their cases, until citizens give more thought to resolving disputes without plunging into the adversary process, and until voters stop insisting that every perceived wrong be countered with new law and move to reclaim some of the rule-making authority they have consigned to judges and bureaucrats by default. In the words...
Many outsiders see Washington law as a world of fixing, influence peddling and lobbying over lunch. Insiders insist that, while a few superstars like Edward Bennett Williams or Clark Clifford have considerable access to top officials, the image is vastly distorted. Says one associate: "New York lawyers spend a lot of time poring over statute books. We spend time on the phone-often with the same public-access person available to John Q. Citizen-and then explain the situation to the client. It's usually awfully mundane...
...true, of course, that this weekend offers two landmark works of twentieth-century drama (Ionesco's brilliantly wacky, Theatre-of-the-Absurd The Bald Soprano and Beckett's masterpiece of nihilism and humanity, Waiting for Godot), but wouldn't you really rather indulge in a little anarchy? If you insist, the Ionesco is at the B.A.G. Lunchtime Theater (267-7196), today, Friday and next Wednesday at 12:10 and 1:10 p.m.; the Beckett is at the Boston Arts Group Theater (also 267-7196), tonight through Saturday at 8 and Sunday...
...Indianapolis Speedway, and they habitually try to squeeze through spaces that are too narrow for even a bicycle to navigate. New York City lights are synchronized so that if your timing is right, you can drive for fifty or sixty blocks without hitting a red light. Cabbies always insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace up one's own Adidas. It's kind of like the rolled coaster, whip, and bumper...
Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...