Word: plea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early this year, before the trial of the older attackers began, defense lawyers thought the case so hopeless that they attempted (and failed) to plea-bargain with Prosecutor Robert Rodrigues. Once again, Anna flew back to Hawaii from Finland. In direct testimony she described the assaults. But the defense lawyers declined to cross-examine Anna. In so doing they forfeited a chance to challenge her story, but they also cut off the prosecutor's only opportunity to draw further detailed testimony from her in rebuttal...
...Tarnower's life itself be tarnished!" he shouted. "Don't say he died as a result of a homicidal rage, of some sordid affair. Restore the dignity of Dr. Tarnower, who himself died trying to save Jean Harris." He ended his impassioned plea by quoting a poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I miss him in the weeping of the rain...
...special poignance clings to the critic's plea, so reasonable only 16 years ago. Today the option of silence is lost in the collision of melodrama and documentary. The Holocaust has been the subject of a top-rated TV miniseries, of William Styron's bestseller Sophie's Choice, Lina Wertmuller's film Seven Beauties and Arthur Miller's melodrama Playing for Time, of countless paperbacks tastefully decorated with barbed-wire designs. Funds are currently being solicited for the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust project in Los Angeles: "This multiscreen, multichannel sound, audiovisual experience of the Holocaust will...
...Kuttner concludes with an almost mournful plea to learn from our mistakes; the problem is that so far only the Right has transformed the failures of the Great Society into an agenda for the '80s. Americans committed to social justice mow face the future leaderless, devoid of new ideas and without a working-class base of support. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a man conspicuous in his absense from Kuttner's book is fond of saying, "the flame may flicker, but the danger dream will never die." Yet the flame is in danger without the fuel of new ideas and vision...
...answers--but out of the explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf writes. Thus A Model Childhood becomes above all a plea to reconnect ourselves with our past, and teach our children the lessons of history as best we can--not to perpetuate guilt, but rather to promote sensitivity in the present...