Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact of the matter is that the federal government has little immediate control over what will occur in a particular state. The NAACP can bring suit in Mississippi as well as in Arkansas, and when a court orders integration, the government has no alternative but to enforce the order if it is flouted. It is possible, indeed probable, that situations such as the present one will arise where the use of force will be necessary. And in some of these instances, the few outbreaks of violence which occurred in Little Rock may appear like an in significant skirmish before...
Forty-one years is a long time to stay with a single organization, and when the organization in question is the Cambridge Police Department, or any police department, for that matter, it is an especially long time...
...Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone no matter how many people he may have around...
...served at the U.N. for the past five years, promised to gavel quickly for order, start the sessions on time, and get everybody home for Christmas. "I can see no reason at all," he said, "why we should not have a reasonably tranquil session." It was another matter how many problems the session would settle...
...narrow choice of subject matter puzzles Morandi as much as anyone. "Perhaps," he says with a shrug, "the isolation in which I have found myself has led me to love solitary and silent things." Those qualities imbue his art. The timeless, table-top universe Morandi pictures may be as dry as the empty bottles that populate it, but it powerfully conveys-indeed, it creates-an atmosphere of isolation and profound quietude...