Word: overstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounding translation, which provides a good deal of sharp comic dialogue and worthy black-out lines for the vignettes of Schweyk in action. In rendering the songs which highlight many scenes, the translation achieves where many English treatments of Brecht fail; the lyrics retain a cutting edge but never overstep the limits of the playwrignt's delicate ironic sense to make the point. This discipline is another necessary element of good didactic theater...
Bounds of Propriety. As Canada's most eligible bachelor, the 48-year-old Trudeau has dated a succession of smashing girls during the summer, most of them some 20 years younger than himself. Presumably to their disappointment, he has not been known to overstep the bounds of prime-ministerial propriety. Asked if he intends to marry any particular girl, Trudeau's stock reply is: "Yes, but she changes from hour to hour...
...liberal nonCommunists, K.A.N., has already signed up more than 20,000 members but takes care to describe it self as a club rather than a party. K.A.N.'s rallies at times take place despite police bans, but the club's sober leaders know that if they overstep the bounds, they may force the government to crack down...
...satisfy viewers who have come to expect the news to match the action of other programs. Too many "talking heads," regardless of their message, can be deadly, and thus, as one newsman admits, "we're still basically in show business." That fact has led some newsmen to overstep their charter. Recently, Los Angeles' KNBC sent a film team to Claremont Men's College to shoot a debate on Viet Nam, and caused a ruckus when the students' spotted the newsmen unpacking half a dozen posters with pro and con war slogans. Later, a spokesman for KNBC...
...overstep the boundaries of this meeting of ours," said Nikita Khrushchev. "I have my arguments, you have your views. You don't agree with me, but all the more so I don't agree with you. If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I will throw a couple of porcupines under you." At that point last week, with the Chairman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics replying to a particularly pointed question put to him by an American capitalist, TIME found itself making as well as reporting news...