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...Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale. "A country that doesn't want to live in chaos has to establish a tradition of law." While the Bible extols mercy, it also demands justice and honors those who seek it?those who, in the words of the Sermon on the Mount, "hunger and thirst for righteousness." If every wrongdoer deserved unlimited mercy, police could not arrest murderers, district attorneys could not prosecute slumlords, and ombudsmen like Ralph Nader could not attack the shoddy practices of Industry...
...setting is an English coal-mining town. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are joining them to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Mr. Shaw (Donald Ewer) has gone down into the coalpits for 49 years. He has a lung-dusty cough, a ready thirst and a powerful conviction that he has saved his boys from the red-brick slavery of a Midlands industrial warren...
Slater recently remarked that "cash can be converted into things, but things can't be converted into cash." Interest rates in London of 13% to 15% on 90-day money may explain his thirst for liquidity, or he may simply want to retire at 45. Said John Ford, Slater, Walker's financial director, of the firm's sale of Franklin stores: "What happened in 1776 shows that the British don't always do well out in the colonies...
...waterfront bar. If one of the seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking an ocean liner...
...plodding honesty, Moorhouse examines his insular intolerance of strange customs and his lack of confidence in his ability to evaluate his guides and companions along the way. He confronts the colossal reluctance he felt at having to haul himself into the saddle each morning for another day of pain. Thirst reduced him to almost incoherent terror. Every chance encounter - whether with a lone sheepherder or a cold-eyed Tuareg tribesman - knotted his insides with anxiety...