Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since an arrested witness is almost no use at all, lawyers suggest that observers who think police are unfair should keep quiet and note facts like the officer's badge number. Demonstrators may be searched-before arrest as well as after-if the police have good reason to suspect that they are carrying concealed weapons. Legal protests must remain peaceful, but in legally questionable situations the N.Y.C.L.U. pragmatically advises demonstrators: "If the police tell you to move, ask them where to and try to go there...
Lest I seem to be an aging reactionary, let me assure you that I have no hatred for the new music. I suspect that the trouble is not in the music, but in the composer. Writing in the New York Times recently, Aaron Copland observed that too many contemporary composers use the university as their base, and consequently, the music they produce is refined and scholarly, yet almost unfit for human consumption, except for those who believe that music should be seen and not heard. Coplan cites Foss, with his long connection with UCLA, and now Harvard...
...SUSPECT that he is far too correct. The university has a way of offering an artist room and board in exchange for the sale of his soul, and corrupting his product with its ivory tower approach. In C and Echoi are fine musical exercises. As works for performance, however, they don't measure...
...addition, geologists point out that Chad is likely to have untapped oases of oil beneath her burning desert sands. They suspect that a rich uranium belt that underlies the Central African Republic stretches into Chad as well. France may be eyeing such resources for the development of her atomic stockpiles...
...many by the giant An-22, which, until the advent of the U.S.'s Lockheed C-5A last year, was the world's largest plane. Though U.S. sources discount rumors that the Soviets considered parachuting supplies to Communist guerrillas operating in Colombia and Venezuela, they suspect that the Soviets seized on the operation as an excuse for making proving flights along the Andes, a region in which they have had minimal flying experience. There is no doubt, furthermore, that the mercy planes have off-loaded cargo in Havana before continuing south to Peru. All told, three or four...