Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many prosecutors, a far more important concern is whether the sentence fits the offender. Thus, judges throughout the U.S. have leeway to give stiff or light sentences according to the merits of the individual case. After considering the results of broad judicial discretion in New York State, Chief Judge Stanley Fuld of the court of appeals was so dismayed that last week he suggested that it might be necessary to remove the sentencing power from judges altogether and turn it over to "a correction authority or some other agency...
Between 1898 and 1910, Shaw, with all the exuberance of a honking Stanley Steamer, was making his belated run toward greatness. Marriage to the well-dowried Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, when he was already 41, relieved him at last of journalism's curse, the deadline. As if illustrating his own theory of the life force, Shaw hurled himself into writing plays. Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra and Major Barbara are among the choicest products of these years. At their dashing best, the letters read like mini-prefaces to the plays, minor skirmishes in the battle against...
Mickey Lolich was in trouble. Tommy Harper and Little Luis danced off base as he threw a curve that hung over the dish for the reborn Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz placed the ball over the dish for the outstretched arm of Mickey Stanley in the cavernous Detroit center field. Harper crossed the plate with the tying run as Yaz steamed into third base. But the coordination of Aparicio had deserted him in this one crucial moment. Little Luis fell down, crawled back to third base with the go-ahead run, to greet the ecstatic, then horrified, yastrzemski. The pennant...
DANIEL JEAN STANLEY...
Clockwork Orange. John Alcott's colors are impressive, but Stanley Kubrick's film of the Anthony Burgess novel has the tone of a shrill scold, and is a visual and dramatic cheat. Malcolm McDowell as the lead thug has been praised for his performance, but can't help being more interesting than his supporting cartoon figures. No great achievement for director or actor...