Word: obey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaceful beauty, for all its graceful ways, for all Lindsay Almond's relaxed composure, Virginia was deeply, darkly troubled. The trouble lay in the issue of an era, an issue bound to come fittingly, inevitably to clearest focus in Virginia. It was as simple as this: Should Virginia obey the law of the land by allowing Negro children to attend school with whites? Or should Virginia close its public schools, blindly following a legalistic road that might well lead to the violence that Virginia's leaders most deplore? U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia's benign but absolute...
...Southern states-Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-there is no integration at all, and the newly emboldened anti-integration forces are waiting to see the outcome of next month's tests of Virginia's "massive resistance" laws, designed to close public schools that obey a court order to integrate...
Novelist Powell, who was at Eton with Henry Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between...
...South's fight to knock the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business in Dixie, one of the hardest punches was a $100,000 contempt-of-court fine levied in 1956 against the Alabama N.A.A.C.P. Offense: refusing to obey a court order to hand over membership lists as evidence in the state government's still pending suit to bar the N.A.A.C.P. from operating in Alabama. Turning over the lists, protested the N.A.A.C.P., would expose members to harassment...
Einstein sought precisely this: a unified field theory. Relativity, which explained the motion of large bodies in a gravitational field, has never explained the behavior of subatomic particles, which are controlled by electric forces. Yet both presumably obey the same general laws, since both are matter. Whether or not Heisenberg's "suggestion" can be proved experimentally, his goal is the classic one: "The future theory of matter will probably contain, as conceived in Plato's philosophy, only assumptions of symmetry...