Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French, of course, have a long tradition of an older woman initiating a young man in the felicities of sex. Transferred to a U.S. setting, Forty Carats acquires a sociological tinge. The play enters a sane and plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage. If it is acceptable for an older man to marry a young girl, then it ought to be equally acceptable for an older woman to marry a young man. Love is a game for all seasons...
Zinn has decided that he can ignore Oliver Cromwell's eloquent plea: "In the bowels of Christ, I beseech you, bethink you that you may be mistaken...
...high point one evening last April in hot, smoky Boston Garden. It was the day Martin Luther King died. Atkins, Mayor Kevin White, and James Brown stood on the stage and looked up at the tiers of young people, mostly black, and asked them to control their anger. The plea and the James Brown concert were televised, and Roxbury didn't explode that time...
...California's San Quentin prison waited for the State Supreme Court to rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson. Both convicted murderers were challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty, and they could hardly have picked a more promising time or place for their plea. Their lawyers could argue with considerable authority that Western society has come to look upon execution as a cruel and unusual form of punishment. And the California court could be expected to listen sympathetically; it has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal in the nation...
...whom enjoyed a 17-month stay of execution while the cases were being decided, are sure to use the Anderson-Saterfield ruling for new petitions of their own. Under last week's decision, those who cannot afford lawyers are now entitled to have one provided for every plea. Thus, if the deathrow inmates do not get their sentences revised, at least they will avoid the gas chamber a while longer...