Word: shames
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Abram J. Chayes '43, Frankfurter Professor of Law--who clerked for Frankfurter in 1951--said he was motivated to organize the event by the fact that Frankfurter" was simply the increasingly dominant presence at the Law School for over 20 years--to have him sort of disappear was a shame...
...correlation can be made between Rauda Marcia's decision and Reagan's new policy, it's a shame the Administration didn't crack down on El Salvador earlier. Washington is in a position to dictate positive, pragmatic changes to the Salvadorans without resorting to military aid. If those in power don't hesitate to use that influence, more chaos in El Salvador--and more deaths--can still be avoided...
...shame that Creepshow fails so miserably, even as crude entertainment, because the initial premise is a good one. In the horror genre, King and Romero represent the opposite poles of safe commercialism and bizarre individuality, but here they both go back to their common root--the pulp comic book. The short vignette, already used to great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door...
...murder of some 30,000 Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans at the hands of paramilitary death squads widely believed in most cases to have connections with the local security forces. It was a subject, Hinton told his audience, that "so many of you, because of indifference or shame or fear, leave in eloquent silence." The killings, Hinton noted, were the work of a Mafia and must be stopped. Said he: "Is it a wonder that much of the world is predisposed to believe the worst of a system which almost never brings to justice either those who perpetrate...
Many long time liberal fans of Millicent Fenwick will find it difficult to vote against her today. It seems a shame to force one of Congresses most spirited and engaging characters to retire. But there is good reason why the New Jersey race has tightened up so drastically and for what the state's Washington delegation might lose in style it would gain in hard driving legislative representation...