Word: selected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good jurist, not a balanced judge and. if you had to select him, the least you could have done was to label him "Chief Prosecutor...
...certain well-defined roles the show suffers. A critic should move with those two figures--producer and director--as they give form to the production. For a producer the key problem is finding competent designers and technicians for every aspect of the show's stagecraft, while the director must select actors capable of turning in solid, creditable performances. The former, if experienced will know which lighting designers might be interested and capable of giving the show what it needs. If inexperienced, he starts from scratch and hopes his roommates have hidden talents with nails and hammers. The director relies...
...procedure, he let the convicted men know that the severity of sentences would depend heavily on the degree to which they cooperated with probation officers and investigators still probing the Watergate crimes. One potential truth-baring forum looming ahead at the time was that of Sam Ervin's Senate Select Committee. Sirica welcomed the hearings despite the fact that they could complicate some criminal prosecutions. "Not only as a judge but as one of millions of Americans who are looking for certain answers," Sirica said, he hoped the Ervin committee could "get to the bottom of what happened in this...
...talk too by giving them harsh provisional sentences ranging up to 40 years. He called their crimes "sordid, despicable and thoroughly reprehensible." He promised to review the sentences later and said that the final sentencing "would depend on your full cooperation with the grand jury and the Senate Select Committee. " Sirica's expressed purpose: "Some good can and should come from a revelation of sinister conduct whenever and wherever such conduct exists...
...long ago, discussion of death was largely a select European import -Camus, say, in The Myth of Sisyphus. Suddenly, death is an exceedingly popular topic in America. It is even an academic specialty: the University of Minnesota boasts a Center for Thanatological Studies, while U.C.L.A. has a Laboratory for the Study of Life-Threatening Behavior. On the lecture circuit, "the subject of death is now outdrawing the perennials-sex and politics," writes Roman Catholic Theologian Daniel C. Maguire in the current issue of the Atlantic. Maguire's essay describes a new genre he calls "the thanatology book...