Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of this statistical proof of Brown's ineptitude, one game glares out: the Bruins beat Colgate, 27 to 19, a team that had earlier defeated Princeton...
They are charged under a stringent Prisons Act that makes it a crime to publish false information on prisons without taking "reasonable" steps to verify it. The onus of proof is on the accused. The government no longer denies the main thrust of the Mail's stories, since ample evidence of prison brutality is now on the record. Instead, the charges against Gandar and Pogrund are based on legalistic quibbles. For instance, the prosecution does not dispute that prisoners were tortured with electric shocks-only that the newspaper said the shocks were administered on orders from a prison officer...
...what it billed as evidence against him. His Re publican opponent, Shelby Highsmith, accused him of taking a $1,500 bribe eight years ago to drop bad-check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test was inconclusive, the Herald was convinced that the other man's story was true...
...Tuesday night, for Allard K. Lowenstein, the system had worked pretty well. Kids and adults were standing on chairs and cheering. Someone was crying. You couldn't even get Cokes at the bar without showing proof, but nobody cared. Drinks weren't important. In a horrible election year, one good thing had happened. Everyone crowded around Lowenstein, shaking his hand, hugging him. The band played "The Impossible Dream...
...audience should wake up and think, and that drama should be an instrument of social change. Brook accepts too uncritically the notion that Brecht wanted an audience to think for itself: no playwright was a more sedulous brainwasher. Despite his fierce ideological bias, however, there is no convincing proof that Brecht-or any other playwright-ever altered the course of a society. Reflecting the nature of a society is another question; all good drama does that...