Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drama of Responsibility. One way out of the morass might be to determine first only the factual question of whether a man committed an illegal act. Psychiatrists would enter the legal process later, as Dr. Karl Menninger and others propose, not to testify but to advise the court on how to control dangerous offenders and how to treat and rehabilitate the rest. This solution would end courtroom squabbles over the question of responsibility, but could raise a host of new problems and require a drastic reform in present legal processes. It might, for instance, lead to further disputes about whether...
Transforming today's tax morass into a system with less capacity for social damage will require strenuous effort...
...result, though few people on the left have yet been willing to admit it, is that the New Left today is a mess. It is a morass of slogans and apocalyptic visions, full of desperation and despair. It is a movement without ideology, without anything that can be called strategy, and without a coherent program for social or economic change...
INTO THIS medical morass, the Harvard Medical School has stepped. Harvard's role as a healthy spawning ground for medical talent as well known. But the Med School's attempt to soothe the medical crisis has now involved it in a task more typical of the Business School. Led by Robert Ebert, dean of the school, and Jerome Pollack, an experienced medical administrator from New York, the Med School planners are working on a scheme that may offer American medicine a way out of its current welter of ills...
...production has experienced some cast changes since the Broadway run, none of which affect the extraordinary quality of the production. Brian Murray, the original Rosencrantz, now has his characterization perfect. Laughing at the winds as he struggles along trying to penetrate the morass in which he finds himself, Murray makes his portrayal rival Alec McCowen's Hadrian in its timing and intensity. In addition, the Derek Goldby staging remains as graceful and moving as a year ago, and the Richard Pilbrow lighting plot still strikes me as the best I've ever seen...