Word: quarrelling
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Whatever the eventual decision it could affect more than TV's tireless insistence on sharing the newsman's right to cover trials. In accepting Estes' appeal, the Supreme Court involved it self in the kind of quarrel that has been stirred up whenever the press, in the exercise of its constitutionally guaranteed freedom, is accused of infringing a defendant's constitutionally guaranteed right to a fair trial...
...Chariots. For all the local varieties of the Buddhist lotus, two divergent traditions are responsible for the stance of Buddhism in Asia today. The split goes back 2,000 years, and much of the original quarrel is lost in the misty past, though apparently it included some indelicate polemics over whether a monk's nocturnal emission constituted proof of an unredeemed lust. The main argument was really a conflict that sooner or later afflicts most religions: between the fundamentalists and the liberals...
During one lively, choreographed quarrel, Godard abruptly freezes the frames to announce in titles: "It is because they love each other that things will go wrong for Emile and Angela." Later, Brialy soliloquizes: "I don't know whether this is a comedy or a tragedy-but it is a masterpiece." It isn't, really. But for fans of offbeat films, it will seem a pungently detailed and disarmingly original effort by a man who makes his joy in his work contagious...
...JOHN LOCKE: "One might call him the first modern English philosopher to write like a gentleman. His tone expresses confidence in the essential reasonableness of God, Nature and Man and in the fundamental stability of the English Constitution. There is said to be an ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry, but I doubt if any kind of philosophy has ever been, in all its implications, more hostile to poetry than that of Locke...
...another Hitler, as quixotic liberals teil us, Johnson more than qualifies as a Hindenburg. He is the representative of the very policics which produce, and, except in election years, tolerate the lunatic fringe on the right. By voting for Johnson or Goldwater, one is involving oneself in a quarrel within the capitalist class, between Goldwater, the enfant terrible of Big Business, and the more obedient Johnson...