Word: knocking
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...book, Lying, Bok-the wife of Harvard President Derek Bok and daughter of Swedish Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal-traces the history of convoluted arguments on the subject. For instance, Grotius said that speaking falsely to an intruder is not a lie. This, Bok suggests, would be something like knocking a man to the ground, then explaining that you did not hit him because he had no right to be there. Kant insisted that all lies were immoral-even those told to a murderer to protect an innocent life. Erasmus disagreed, but Cardinal Newman sympathized with Kant. His solution: instead of lying...
...York before taking off for Israel, Defense Minister Weizman admitted that retaliatory air strikes in southern Lebanon were "a possibility." That, of course, has been the pattern in the past, and Israel might well seize on the provocation as an excuse to put into action a plan to knock out encampments of the 5,000 Palestinians dug in near the border area...
Such mischievous effects have not escaped the attention of military authorities who in classified studies have noted that a cloud of carbon fibers could be used, for instance, to incapacitate electrical equipment over wide areas-as well as knock out enemy radar. Because some 350 tons of carbon fibers are now produced annually in the U.S. and abroad, the Carter Administration ordered that much of the NASA study be made public. It also directed several agencies under the auspices of the Department of Commerce to look into the matter further...
...week run. At the opposite end of the spectrum, in terms of opulence, the musical Pippin dazzles nightly at the Shubert Theatre (426-6173 or -4520). Music and lyrics are by Stephen (Godspell) Schwartz, but it's Bob Fosse's direction and choreography that will knock your...
With a must-win situation in each of its last two games and a standing-room-only crowd expected at the Boston Garden, tonight's Beanpot finale against Boston University will be more than the knock-down stick-in-the-face episodes we've come to know over the past decade--if anything more than the intensity of a Harvard-B.U. game is possible...