Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With out Portfolio under Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor at Saigon's National Institute of Administration...
...last scenes are the best. The splendidly terrifying generalissimo is trying the revolutionaries for their assorted crimes. The revolutionaries' state-appointed lawyer, done very amusingly by Ken Pauker, argues for them with little success or enthusiasm. The play works so well here because all the characters are involved in the same activity, the trial, and all are, finally, very loose. In the epilogue Pantagleize roams on a darkened stage, amid more corpses than there are at the end of Hamlet, looking for an imaginary exit. Here is de Ghelderode's metaphor for modern existence: we are all dying...
...Portugal will continue to lack the funds at home to undertake much-needed public works and industrialization. Similarly, the repressive overseas policy impedes progress toward liberalization at home. At the same time, Caetano, who already has allowed the return from exile of Salazar's most prominent political enemy, Lawyer Mario Scares, and eased the press censorship somewhat, pledged that he would submit specific reform bills to the National Assembly before its present term ends next April. Portuguese liberals want Caetano to abolish all forms of censorship, guarantee civil rights for all citizens, and allow opposition politicians to participate...
...Coincidentally with Beatle John Lennon's conviction by a London court for possessing marijuana. Lennon, who said through his lawyer that he had now "cleansed himself" of narcotics, was fined...
...fuss, the brief deals only peripherally with the issues for which Baird has been fighting. A lawyer has to find constitutional excuses for what are more basically humanitarian questions...