Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richardson's selection of Cox is crucial to his own confirmation hearing, which is presently in progress in the Senate. Richardson had told the Senate sub-committee that he would exercise final control over the special prosecutor...
...indicted for violating an executive order, their constitutional rights were trampled in an evidence-gathering crusade conducted by the CIA in cahoots with petty thieves. Even more startling, presiding judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. was invited in April to the San Clemente White House -- while the case was in progress -- to discuss the possibility of Byrne's directing the FBI. The defense was charitable in labeling this desperate attempt at manipulating the judiciary "attempted bribery...
...return home via Rome and London-skipping Paris, he interjected-a look at his homes in Washington and Vermont, a visit to his daughter in Brazil, and finally a return to Washington for reassignment. "As far as the U.S. in Viet Nam is concerned," he said, "the degree of progress is that we can work ourselves out of a job." Bunker may have worked himself out of Viet Nam, but he is already looking forward to a new posting...
...plumed hat and bizarre purple outfit. But we're so busy looking at his clothes that we miss the significance of his lines. The same thing happens later in the play, when Peter Kazaras' strong speech as Pope Urbino is marred by the attention devoted to the progress of his complicated toilette...
BRECHT'S INABILITY to convey science convincingly is not just an irritating drawback: it is a central flaw in this work. How much faith can we place in a man's evaluation of scientific progress if he seems to have no conception of what science is? Like this whole production, Brecht's script lacks a tone of authority. The players and the playwright seem equally uncertain about what they are trying to do, and therefore equally incapable of achieving...