Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walker sees the play's interpretation of that experience as contemporary and relevant, and presents what she calls a "profound disillusionment with the values of the state," in a "narrow, legal and power-obsessed society." Dionysos, held in myth to be the inventor of theater, imposes on civic order a dancing, crowded and angry disorder that could sweep, perhaps, over Boston as readily as over Thebes...
...Being from California, where [the death penalty] has been legal for so long, I'm not really surprised," said Cecile O. Directo '98, an Engineering concentrator living in Mather House...
...that it's legal, it'll be interesting to see what people here think is appropriate for death," Directo said. "When you make the death penalty legal, you basically put up for public opinion what's right and what's wrong...
Frederick Schauer, the academic dean of the Kennedy School and Stanton professor of the First Amendment, provided his views by describing the current legal environment for tabloid journalism...
...mind that a rehabilitated youth with a new lease on life is probably a fairer replacement for a death than another death. While the desire for eye-for-an-eye justice is understandable, acting on this desire is inexcusable in modern civil society. The primary function of America's legal system should not be to carry out vengeance. The legal system may never escape public opinion, but it should not subordinate dispensation of purposeful justice to the opinion of the masses...