Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense also cast doubt on the confessions, which were signed without the presence of the defendants' lawyers. The case finally hinged on the singular is sue central to nearly every rape prosecution: the victim's degree of resistance. The case posed special problems for the prosecution because Anna had voluntarily accompanied some of the boys to their surfside tent - and smoked marijuana with them - before the attacks began. The prosecutor asked, "How much torture must a woman endure before she is believed?": But Anna's imprudence was apparently enough to stir a shadow of doubt...
...obscure Eastern law school, but the fact that it takes place at Harvard has a lot to do with this attitude. The vast majority of the people in this country only know Harvard as the Law School, and its graduates are accorded the esteem that only truly singular achievment can surpass. The show should be kept in perspective for what it is, a group of people getting together to have a good time. But a narcissistic effort of an elite to distinguish itself should be perceived also...
...rhetoric when it is unaccompanied by the work of organizing, of creating support. "During the final year of SNCC's existence, staff members became increasingly dogmatic and isolated. Formerly controversial ideas became cant and posturing. SNCC's demise as a national organization merely confirmed the earlier death of its singular spirit and of the black struggles that had produced that spirit...
There are few signs of restiveness. Indeed, this singular young woman is hard to fault. She keeps up an easy, loving relationship with her father, from whom, presumably, she gets both her amiability and her height (Frank Shields is about...
...Shepard has repudiated this production at off-Broadway's Public Theater and launched a steamy vendetta against Producer Joseph Papp. Certain errors of perception and direction are quite evident, but enough of the true Shepard is here to do him honor. Papp has certainly retained Shepard's singular gift for lunging simultaneously at the jugular and the funny bone. -By T.E. Kalem