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Genocide? Mitchell's offense was more prosaic-he had simply refused to report for induction-but his defense was far more grandiose. Contending that the U.S. is committing genocide and other crimes against world law in Viet Nam, he cited the Nurnberg war-trial verdicts as an injunction on all citizens to disobey illegal orders from their governments. Mitchell was convicted and sentenced to five years after his first trial in Federal District Court in New Haven, Conn., but the Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction on procedural grounds...
...trouble with the Lowell House production of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie is just that: the magic world of memory and illusion that Williams tried to create exists only in the glass figurines. The rest of the play, except for a moment or two, is flat, prosaic, and pretty unmagical...
...very prosaic guy," Booth said, and in spite of his reputation as a radical there seemed a note of truth in his snicker. To prove his point, Booth reported that he attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D. C., then went to Swarthmore College where he majored in Political Science, worked in the student government, and wrote for The Phoenix, the college newspaper. But this was only a temporary phase, he assured...
...film's motif is whiteness--the sky throughout is a dazzling white; much of the action takes place in the white living room; Colin and Tolen dream of lines of white-sweatered girls, whom Lester renders in overexposed, high-key photography--and the white makes even the most prosaic actions, the ones that might "actually" occur, seem slightly unreal...
...unmanned Gemini capsule that descended on the desolate scrub outside Fort Hood, Texas, had not even come close to orbit. It had simply been car ried aloft by an Air Force C-119 trans port and cut loose at the relatively low altitude of 11,000 ft. But the prosaic flight was an effort to answer important questions' Can capsules such as Gemini be brought down to soft landings on hard ground, and can future astronauts be given any control over the point of impact? To both questions the answer was an impressive...