Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gravel's attorney argued yesterday that Garrity's ruling provides no prior determination of either the scope of the government's inquiry or the legitimacy of its questioning. They maintained that Garrity had not established a safeguard to prevent the grand jury from becoming "an oppressive instrument" that would "conduct a total fishing expedition into the activities of the legislative branch...
...Indeed, to the extent that the show has any personal continuity, it is carried by the relationship between them. Lloyd Webber and Rice admit to a feeling that history and the Scriptures have been unkind to Judas. If Christ was really divine, after all, then Judas was merely the instrument of his will. And if Christ was merely a great teacher and prophet who in mid-career fell prey to delusions of grandeur and a persecution complex, then Judas ?those 30 pieces of silver aside?was merely doing what he thought was right. The latter is the view, anyway...
...principal instrument of that struggle is their collective power of reasoning. The importance of intelligence on the court is not so much that it promises the right result, but that it will serve to expose and carve away the clutter-emotion, prejudice, unexamined tenets of historical faith-that can get in the way of decision making. If the decision is not always the best, then at least a well-reasoned opinion gives judges, lawyers and judicial scholars a chance to spy out its fatal inconsistencies...
...circleor one-letter formations. Yale's has skill and handles its limited talent well, but the Lions frequently pass their jokes over the heads of their receivers. The strength of Columbia is in the air, and frequently it misses the mark. Often the Lions call on one big, star instrument to quarterback the show. But even with their star quarterback, the Columbia band doesn't score like the Yale Band. The Eli are what you might call a ground-oriented team; seeking the dirt and crawling through the opposition. What the Columbia band says, the Yale band works...
...antidote for marriage-poisoning urged on him. He is equally incapable of ricocheting from marriage to divorce to marriage to divorce. This is what makes the play, and its dilemma, undeviatingly honest. Anderson offers a final comfort that is small, but not cold: the heart is the only broken instrument that works...