Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular prices. Small boys charged apartment dwellers 100 a floor to lead them up murky stairways. Worst of all were the cabbies, who seemed intent on making enough to retire the very next day. Many hackies charged?and got?up to $50 for a $15 ride...
...constitutional rights. Section 242 forbids any person "acting under color of any law" to so deprive any U.S. "inhabitant" or to persecute him by reason of his being "an alien, or by reason of his race or color." But conviction requires proof that the defendant had "specific intent" to deny constitutional rights, and the maximum sentence is only one year...
...Novelty. In fact, the Justice Department has scrupulously heeded the intent of the law, which aims primarily to encourage local compliance. Katzenbach has done his utmost to persuade county officials to obey the law rather than have federal registrars sent in. As a result of such pressure-and patience -two-thirds of all new Negro voters have been voluntarily registered by local officials...
However, nearly everything about Cincinnati Kid is reminiscent of The Hustler. Director Jewison can put his cards on the table, let his camera cut suspensefully to the players' intent faces, but a pool shark sinking a tricky shot into a side pocket undoubtedly offers more range. Kid also has a less compelling subplot. Away from the table, McQueen gambles on a blonde (Tuesday Weld) and on the integrity of his dealer pal, Karl Maiden. Pressure comes from a conventionally vicious Southern gentleman (Rip Torn), whose pleasures include a Negro mistress, a pistol range adjacent to his parlor, and fixed...
...Justice. Although he was opposed to the changes, Cardinal Bea urged the bishops to approve the draft, arguing that the rewording did not affect the basic intent and merely stressed "those things which unite men and lead to mutual fellowship." Predictably, Jewish organizations responded favorably to the vote for the declaration, although their enthusiasm was something less than ecstatic. That there should be debate at all on the question of Jewish guilt seemed wrong to some; others felt that the bishops had compromised by adopting a statement that was less forthright and to the point than it might be. Particularly...