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...brisk hand, doubtless sees The Revenger's Tragedy as a cautionary parable for a later age steeped in blood and death and degraded values. The trouble is that rubbing one's nose in a mess is not the best method of cleaning it up. Tourneur tends to prod rather than persuade, and he is too cynical for compassion, too much the devil's advocate to indict devilishness in others...
...most cases, anything "beyond kissing and embracing" if there is no "commitment to marriage." Dirty clothes and messy rooms are inexcusable and represent nothing more than "nose-thumbing" at parents. Daily showers and underarm deodorants are important, as are politeness and "getting chores done before your parents have to prod...
Imposed Time Limit. The chief prod for solving court congestion may well be the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a speedy trial. So far, federal courts have found nothing unconstitutional about delays of a year and sometimes more. In a pending case, however, the nine judges of a federal appeals court are being asked by New York City, among other interested parties, to define the speedy-trial right-for the first time-by setting a six-month limit between arrest and trial. Under the proposed rule, a defendant could request that the charges be dropped after the deadline unless...
...have no sympathy for those corporate laggards who transact business as usual, waiting for the governmental whip to prod them into action. If big business needs guidance in formulating social acceptance programs, why doesn't it seek out political and social scientists and ecologists with the same zeal it displays in wooing accountants and engineers...
SWEDEN. The country is a model for feminist groups around the world. In order to prod husbands into encouraging wives to take a job, the tax laws have been rewritten so that next year married men will be taxed at the same rate as bachelors-a financial jolt to men with non-working wives. Stay-at-home wives are frowned on as "luxury housewives" by the ruling Social Democrats. Sweden's education system recently has been deliberately changed to eliminate the differences in the assumed "sex roles." Schoolboys do needlework and study homemaking, while the girls take courses...