Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subcommittee had good reason to suspect that Braden and Wilkinson were Communists, wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects...
Copland's rhythms are especially infectious in this piece. His opposition of twos and threes is delightful, and his alternation of various triple meters gives a lively, invigorating style. His writing progresses with a natural is beautifully tuned to what man ear enjoys--a principle serialists such as Ernest suspect so highly...
Snow's story of the quarrel between Lindemann and Tizard is thoroughly one-sided and "novelistic," Watson-Watt declares: "I suspect that the itch became unbearable and the novelist dug in, involving himself emotionally in the affairs of his subjects, as a novelist must, and arranging the facts accordingly, as a historian must...
...Roman Catholic Church's once-and-for-all view of marriage causes more problems, more suffering-and more apostasy from the church-than most non-Catholics suspect. Marriage is merely legalized adultery in the eyes of the church if either of the partners has a living spouse to whom he was validly married (which may include ceremonies in other faiths and even civil ceremonies). Example: a Catholic divorced and remarried is considered to be living in sin. What happens if the couple want to make their peace with the church and receive the sacraments?* Must they dissolve their marriage...
...consulates abroad have done much to simplify visa applications. Only suspect applicants, e.g., Communists, those with police records or no financial resources, are forced to fill out the long visa application form. Sample warnings: a caution that anyone who has "engaged in prostitution or will engage in immoral sexual acts" or anyone who is "likely to become a public charge" will be excluded. Except for such cases, most applicants just give pertinent information (name, date and place of birth) to clerks who transcribe it on the short visa form. The whole process usually takes less than 20 minutes...