Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried tutee and an energetic black dog, William Alfred doesn't look like a playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does, Mrs. Murphy, the housekeeper, is in a tizzy. There's the matter...
...handling of the "Third World"; he blew life into the Common Market, even if he chilled the aspirations of those who saw it as a way to political unity on the Continent. In one fell swoop, he disposed of France's colonies in Black Africa, and in the process salvaged stronger ties and greater loyalties with his former wards than any other ex-colonial power...
...democratic process, difficult at best, is faced with special obstacles in Asia, where the West's unique concept of liberty under law is nearly incomprehensible. The idea of a political opposition is repugnant to a world in which consensus and unanimity rather than creative competition seem the only appropriate atmosphere. The Western practice of loyal opposition seems only further proof of Anglo-American cynicism and hypocrisy. For the existence of such political opposition presupposes the integrity of the lone individual against the group, a tradition that is nonexistent among Asians, who see the man with power...
Modern industry also must have social and economic units far bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
...famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a lawyer meant a "clear danger of convicting the innocent." The same went for a case where a jury may have relied on an involuntary confession to convict (Jackson v. Denno). "Confessions," said Warren, "are likely to be highly persuasive with a jury, and if coerced, they may well be untrustworthy by their very...