Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown denounced the senate as a "group of small-minded politicians," and Fonda accused them of "McCarthyism," a charge that was echoed by 200 other show-biz celebrities, including Jane's father Henry. But Brown's cause was not helped by an earlier appointment. On Hayden's...
That is a convincing argument for getting better judges to begin with. In about half the states, most judges are elected. The rationale has always been that voters should have a say in choosing the people who resolve their disputes and enforce public law. But most voters do not know...
Just as Fellini gives us a German conductor-cum-dictator to hammer home his message, so he creates his supposedly symbolic revolution out of such literal-minded devices as graffiti, falling plaster and gunshots. Certainly the movie's point comes through loud and clear, but, as art, Orchestra Rehearsal...
Across the country, many stores are holding heavily promoted early summer sales to lure economy-minded customers. Some Chicago stores, for example, are marking down lawn furniture, usually a brisk seller at this time of year, by 30% to 40%. Worried retailers are either cutting or holding back on fall...
But while Sayers (1893-1957) is famous primarily for her detective stories, Lord Peter was only one of her literary products. A medievalist ("I am a scholar gone wrong," she once remarked), she translated Dante and several early French epics. She wrote feisty essays on the decline of the detective...