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Although two of the tenured professors willing to talk about the outcome of the meeting on Kearns said the department had "passed" the nomination, a third denied that the faculty had approved it, indicating that the department's actions were somewhat more qualified than outright approval...
...many analysts, however, the sourness is less a matter of outright hostility toward Government, politics and institutions than an impatience with turmoil in American life. After years of fighting over race, drugs, sex, Viet Nam, Watergate and recession, voters are seeking some kind of normality. "There is a hunger to get away from crisis, stridency, hysteria, a rejection of any kind of extremism," reports TIME'S public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich. Agrees Alan Baron, a liberal Washington Democrat: "This country wants an overall amnesty. Everybody wants to rest." To Frank Mankiewicz, a director of George McGovern's emotional...
...have wished to tip off Panama to the eventual U.S. negotiating position, and he clearly did not want to confront the issue in an election year. If Ford lacked some political candor, his attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to consider that outright, unyielding ownership of the canal may no longer serve any vital U.S. interest. Indeed, insistence upon that ownership may produce only needless hostility between the U.S. and its remaining friends in Latin America and the Third World...
...many prosecutions a year for religious offenses as before the Revolution. The freedoms granted the non-established, unofficial churches were enlarged, culminating in the passage of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The importation of slaves was forbidden in every state but Georgia and South Carolina, and the outright abolition of slavery occurred in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1786 the Pennsylvania legislature reduced the number of crimes for which death was the penalty, and in 1794 it limited execution to those convicted of willful homicide...
...movie claims to protest such outright exploitation of women. Yet after this voyeuristic and sensationalized scene, there are others which exploit Chris McCormack's predicament in more subtle, teasing ways. The trial is fast and slick; the defense counsel makes his main point--that Stuart couldn't help being seduced by Chris's public eroticism--by asking the model how she manages to appear so provocative in her photographs. "Isn't it true that you think about things that will make you hot? Don't you have to imagine sexual acts to turn yourself on for these pictures?" he challenges...