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...instruction of the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community." An institution is eligible for an educational exemption "even though it advocates a particular position or viewpoint so long as it presents a sufficiently full and fair exposition of the pertinent facts as th permit an individual or the public to form an independent opinion or conclusion...
...said that the decision was accor with the platform of the Nation Youth Caucus, of which the Mass. Cacus is local branch. The platform of th...
...which they appeared seemed to take on a grubby look. Yet the faces of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe were as admired and familiar to Americans during World War II as Dwight David Eisenhower's. Irreverent toward rank and cynical about the war-"Just gimme th' aspirin," Willie tells a medic. "I already got a Purple Heart"-Willie and Joe were more than cartoon characters. They were the American...
...defending himself, Ismaël told the court: "I enjoyed myself when I felt like enjoying myself. I did everything that is normal for a married man. My wife was crabby, sulking and egoistic." The woman judge, Marie-Thérèse Chesnelong, disagreed. Observed she: "Mme. Franconville claims that her husband, despite his advanced age, showed a devouring sexual appetite, considering his spouse an object at his complete, total and permanent disposal." Judge Chesnelong said that Ismaëls conduct ran "from tenderness to the most refined bestiality. He could not pass near his spouse without trying...
Buried Tension. For this reason, theater delighted him. Not the heroics of Shakespeare or Racine, but the work of the new playwrights of the '90s like Ibsen and Maeterlinck, for which Vuillard designed sets at the Théatre de l'Oeuvre in Paris. Russell notes that Vuillard's interiors tend to possess "precisely the elements which Maeterlinck called for: the silence, the half-light, the tensions buried below the point of visibility." He could paint the pauses and solicitous hesitations in polite conversation as neatly as Oscar Wilde could write them...