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...Recast Approach. Even if it were, delaying tough constitutional questions-allowing an issue to "mature"-is a familiar approach in the High Court. Virtually all authorities agree that some degree of uncertainty, even if it means confusion and inequality, is preferable to hard law written without benefit of sufficient experience, study, lower-court opinions and the like. Moreover, the court's nonaction may provide an opportunity to cool the issue considerably...
Journey to Defeat. Life has recast them as a pudgy, crooked mayor grubbing for re-election (Charles Durning), a philandering, strip-mining moneybags (Paul Sorvino), an amusingly cynical alcoholic (Walter McGinn), and his bitter school superintendent of a brother (Michael McGuire). Their old coach (Richard A. Dysart) is a whiplash of a man embalmed in the Vince Lombardi philosophy. But these men have lost the game of life, and in their rasping revelations à la Virginia Woolf and their boozy camaraderie à la The Boys in the Band, the playgoer finds...
...riots reflected most a hardening of Allende's political opposition. The President is having a particularly difficult time with the broad-based, middle-roading Christian Democrats. Having warned Allende that they would oppose his plan to recast the legislature along socialist lines, the Christian Democrats are now waging a bitter struggle to block a Marxist takeover of the University of Chile. Last week they voted to begin impeachment proceedings against Socialist Interior Minister Jose Toha on grounds that he has failed to curb the illegal excesses of the more violent left-wing extremist groups...
When Supersalesmen John Veronis and Nicolas Charney announced plans last month to recast and expand the staid Saturday Review (TIME, Nov. 22), they sought someone to serve as "a strong right arm" to Editor Norman Cousins. After Cousins abruptly resigned in disagreement with the magazine's new owners (TIME. Nov. 29), Charney took the title of editor and stepped up the search for what he called a "consummate professional" to help him revitalize and run the Review. The search ended last week with the selection of TIME Senior Editor Ronald P. Kriss...
...recent article ("Two Women Liberate Church Course," Nov, II) mentions a proposal by some members of our community calling for a ban on the use of man, men, and masculine pronouns "to refer to all people." This proposal to recast part of the grammar of the English language reflects a concern which we as linguists would like to try to alleviate...