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Word: laws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event perfectly illustrates the point. Britain entered the Crimean War on the side of Turkey, largely to defend its own imperialistic interests against possible Russian expansion. Two of England's leading generals, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, were quarrelsome brothers-in-law. A purblind aristocrat, Lucan had not commanded troops for 17 years; "the melancholy truth" about Cardigan, as Woodham-Smith put it, "was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it." At the front, battles with the Russians were hardly less bitter than the internecine wrangling between the two commanders. Finally, a stupid order was fatally misinterpreted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Reason Why | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

Kiddie Lit. Specifically, IRDBNGMD is about 17-year-old Jeremy Wolf's decision to enter antiwar work. Should he break the law by refusing to register for the draft? Lacking the true instinct for martyrdom, he decides to become a draft counselor and turns his house into "an underground station on the freedom road to Canada." His dad-having feared the worst-is much relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Rags to Rages | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...German Federal Law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wiedergutmachung | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...tens of thousands of claimants have been wronged beyond any state's power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wiedergutmachung | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...dead after all. The story deals in breathless comings and goings across the Central Europe of today and yesterday-yesterday in this case being 1939, just before Hitler's "final solution" was set in motion. Davidson detours into the painfully recollected and infinitely poignant shifts of law and finance that were used to raise the money necessary for getting Jews out of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wiedergutmachung | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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