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Word: locked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only reason the film The Europeans lacks an analytic persona. The director, James Ivory, as well as both Wentworth and James himself are, as Wentworth states in the novel, aware that "Forming an opinion--say on a person's conduct--was a good deal like fumbling in a lock with a key chosen at hazard." As analyzing human nature can be slightly slow, clumsy and difficult on paper, so much harder is it to render it on film ready made for passive viewing in a theater. Without an insightful narrator or character who is willing and able to pronounce judgements...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: The Missing James | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...this court is un even and divided; it is feeling its way. But to do otherwise would undermine the credibility of the institution.'' If the lib eral Warren Court has not become the conservative Burger Court, if the Nixon appointees have failed to march in lock step, it should come as no surprise. It is merely a reflection of the integrity, and In deed sensitivity to U.S. society at large, of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology and a member of CUE disagreed, adding taking four A.P. exams might "lock your entire high school program into concrete...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: CUE Passes Plan to Tighten Rules on Sophomore Standing | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

After many Edenic millenniums an "unfortunate cosmic pattern" breaks this lock and introduces cacophony and dissonance into the new world. Almost immediately the inhabitants display symptoms of the "Degenerative Disease," a bellicose assertion of ego against the grain of the common good. Life-spans, which had stretched to a thousand years, begin shrinking dramatically; natural fulfillment is replaced by restless desires and dissatisfactions. The Canopean overseers sadly change Rohanda's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." The period of earth's recorded history is about to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visit to a Small Planet | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...When the lock clicked, Liddy nudged the door open. He shined the penlight into the dark, revealing familiar furnishings: a washbasin and a toilet. He squatted behind the door and ran his hand along the wall. He silently counted the ceramic tiles, seven across from the right wall, four up from the floor. Liddy picked at the soft plaster until the tile came loose. Again using one of his handmade tools, he removed the tile and slipped it into his coat pocket. Liddy plunged three fingers into the vacant hollow and withdrew a small white paper slip. In the same...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Keep the Lid On | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

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