Word: qua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very interesting. But it is a vice to be dull. Similarly, while it may or may not be interesting to be virtuous, it is indubitably virtuous to be interesting. That's why Virtue isn't dull. That's why the cultivation of the self is the sine qua non, the without-it-you're-not-in-it, of being good." Hills is right, of course, about the unpopularity of small-scale, day-to-day morality, and he devotes plenty of heart and wit trying to devise an attractive picture of a good life. But all he manages, really...
...monomaniacal. There is no question of his being worthy of it; he possesses a certain animal-like attractiveness, especially when encased in the full dress uniform of a Victorian Hussar, but Adele's choice of him as a love-object is simply a given, the story's sine qua non. Once you accept it, the rest of the film follows. And, indeed, the choice has been made before the flim begins--it opens with Adele leaving her home to follow Pinson across the Atlantic to Halifax, (Nova Scotia) already aware of the hopelessness of her love. Truffaut doesn't delve...
SHYLOCK remains unreconciled. How satisfied can we be about any "happy" ending that makes its sine qua non his humiliation? Director George Hamlin has taken a wise hint from Walter Kaiser and ended the play, not with the happy sight of lusty couples marching off to bed, but on a note of melancholy. Silhouetted against a night sky, Antonio wordlessly stares into a fountain, suggesting that the solutions on the play's surface are far from final...
...constitutional issues that Crossman himself discussed in his Godkin lectures and in his introduction to a re-issue of Walter Bagehot's English Constitution published in 1963, the year before he entered the Cabinet for the first time. Bagehot had named cabinet secrecy as one of the three sine qua nons of cabinet government, along with party loyalty and collective responsibility. Secrecy allows each member of the Cabinet to express his or her views freely and without fear of being contradicted when called upon to support the final decision. Sometimes this leads to the absurdity of Lord Melbourne saying...
...Bantustans offer employment only to a few small artisans and shopkeepers, and conditions in them get worse. Last year, a subchieftainess of the Basotho Qua-Qua homeland described her territory as a "dumping ground" for the unemployed, saying, "What is worrying me is that I have registered 2,048 families with no clinic and toilet facilities. Their children are without a school." The government spends an average of 483 rand (one rand is about $1.47) on the education of a white child, and about 28 rand on the education of an African. More than 50 per cent of African children...