Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The concept of martial law has meaning only when applied to a country that pays at least theoretical respect to the protection of human rights. In China there is no martial law, but neither does the populace enjoy most of the rights that could be jeopardized by martial law. In...
Now many citizens in the West have begun to detect what might be called the Fallacy of Progress. For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation...
If the law has meaning, it must carry predictable consequences. And the law for some years has not been certain whether it meant to be a guilt-ridden social worker or a hanging judge. The erratic justice that emerges from the badly overburdened system has been further complicated by the...
Finally the exchanges moved, lifting the initial margin requirements for gambling issues from 50% to 75%-meaning that buyers would have to put up at least $750 for every $1,000 stock purchase. The Big Board said it was acting "to insure the protection of public investors and the maintenance...
The real meaning of Days of Heaven emerges from its images, not its players. Nowhere is this more evident than in the film's final scenes, when the action shifts from the farm to a bustling nearby town of 1917. Suddenly we are in the death throes of oldtime...