Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days when the Albany Movement staged a massive public demonstration against segregation in a local movie theater. Following more than a block behind the crowd he was summarily arrested, and spent 20 days in jail. Fasting the entire time. Perdew now faces a clearly fraudalent charge of assault with intent to kill, leveled by local officials bent on crippling the SNCC effort in Albany...
...adequate, the direction is incompetent. David Wheeler has his actors striving for a verisimilitude, a too literal reading of the text, which works against the burlesque and the surrealistic elements of the play. The quiet, subdued tone of this interpretation almost negates the theatricality of the play. The satirical intent of much of the dialogue becomes blunted, and the disparity between forms and their content lacks sharp delineation. The effect of the play, which should be clear and total, is only vague and diffuse...
...think anyone can argue with the fact that the state should be divorced from religion, since that was obviously the intent of our Founding Fathers when they spelled it out quite clearly in the First Amendment to the Constitution...
...image of the uninstructed man as a brute intent on his own heedless pleasure has long vanished. Keeping pace with latter-day psychology and sociology, man is seen now as a fellow who needs help himself. Writer Davis has a section titled "Calming the Groom's Fears." And Medical Columnist Dr. Walter Alvarez writes: "On the honeymoon, the bride may have to be the one who is kind and patient and understanding...
This dispute, the court decided by a 7-to-l vote, turned not on any principle of law but on the intent of Congress in framing the 1928 statute. Associate Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion concluded from the record that "with minor exceptions, the proposals and counterproposals over the years . . . consistently provided for division of the main stream only, reserving the tributaries to each state's exclusive use." On a different interpretation of the record, William O. Douglas delivered a dissent so violent that it visibly jolted other members of the court. Black's opinion, said...