Word: testy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christ doesn't appear. He is represented by all humanity." Against Divorce? In Christ's absence, the audience itself stands trial. At the first Station, a radio reporter assisting Pilate asks prominent citizens whether the accused (Christ-humankind) is guilty. "Too bad he is so demode," testi fies a society lady. "He's against di orce. Imagine! Against divorce, when nobody belongs to nobody." An industrialist insists that Christ should be condemned because he advocates profit-sharing and a shorter work week...
...advice, and just last February his bench manners earned him scathing reproof from a U.S. Court of Ap peals. "It is clear from the record before us," wrote the appellate court in remanding a case to Wyzanski, "that the confusion and conflicts in these witnesses' testi mony were due in no minor part to the trial judge's . . . overzealous participation in the examination of witnesses...