Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anachronistic state residency requirements continue to prevent citizens abroad or families on the move from voting; worse, Congressional districts sometimes vary by 100 per cent in size, and Congress seems intent on suspending the Court-ordered redistricting until 1972 when the 1970 census will be available; worst of all, Congress refuses to allow the 800,000 residents of the District of Columbia to have local home rule or representation in the U.S. Congress to eliminate these voting inequities, but, so far, opponents have used procedural irresponsibility to block them...
...HOMECOMING springs traps and surprises on its audience, making the play's validity, intent and meaning the controversy of the season. The Royal Shakespeare Company gives Harold Pinter's drama a spellbinding presentation...
Only when the Congressmen had talked themselves out, and passed the bill by 385 votes to 16, did they realize that the specific intent of the measure had somehow been overlooked in the patriotic talkfest. Though it had originally been framed as a response to the burning of a U.S. flag in Manhattan's Central Park last May, the bill as passed covered "publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling or trampling upon" the banner but did not in fact mention the act of flag flammation. That form of desecration will doubtless be reproscribed, with appropriate oratory, in the Senate...
Into this vacuum of thought, structuralism has reared its guidon all over the Gallic intellectual landscape. A new school of fiction has risen with the declared intent of consulting man's subconscious intellectual infrastructure rather than the visible rules of literary composition. The function of writing itself-rather than message, story or character-becomes the novelist's purpose. The formlessness of structural fiction stems from a reliance on the creative inspiration of the unconscious-the hidden intellectual code. At an even more arcane level, literary critics are using structuralism to redefine-and enhance-the critical role...
...years to lead the Open after 54 holes when he fired 67-73-69 for a one-stroke margin over Nicklaus, Palmer and Billy Casper. Then out for the last round came the four contenders-and a physiognomist could have picked the winner. Fleckman was visibly nervous; Arnie was intent; Casper stood trancelike on the first tee, gazing vacantly at the sky. Nicklaus was smiling and strutting like a sergeant major...