Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Home Secretary Callaghan who led the fight against hanging in the House of Commons last week. "There are times when Parliament has to act in advance of public opinion and give a lead," he said. He pointed out that before 1965, the actual number of executions in Britain had averaged only two a year-hardly enough to affect "the credibility of law and order." Most Laborites favored abolition of the death penalty, and many Tories opposed it. But in the balloting, numerous Tories, including Opposition Leader Ted Heath, voted with the majority. By 343 to 185, the Commons voted...
...city's economic development administration has tried to dismiss Fantus' move as a publicity stunt. The administration's chief, D. K. Patton, a former Fantus vice president, suggests that Fantus thinks it can boost its business by persuading companies to relocate. Outside opinion tends to support Yaseen. The National Industrial Conference Board reports that the chiefs of some major companies are thinking of offering executives whom they try to lure to Manhattan a "New York cost-of-living differential...
Splendor and Doubf. Doubt dawned slowly upon the incipient country parson. "At last gleams of light have come," he wrote, "and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to the opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable...
Council members, however, were in no mood to accept such a defense. The regime "has kept public opinion waiting for more than two years," said West Germany's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel. "This continued violation of our statutes cannot be denied." At least eleven of the Council's 18 members were ready to approve a resolution that would have suspended Greece temporarily but allowed it to maintain a liaison staff at Council headquarters in Strasbourg until constitutional rule is restored...
Considering that Hedda Gabler is one of the great character portraits in all of drama, it is amazing how stiflingly unanimous critical opinion and acting theory have been about her. For decade after decade, there has been one Hedda, with only minor variations. This Hedda has been a malevolent vampire, a caged prisoner of boredom, a raging neurasthenic. Now, in an off-off-Broadway production by a group called the Opposites Company, there is a new Hedda Gabler, not only beautifully performed, but deeply and subtly thought through in terms that make it peculiarly relevant to the psychic and psychological...