Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juror told reporters that "we all agreed the abortion was perfectly legal. It was negligence. I don't think he did a thorough job examining the fetus for signs of life once it was removed." What that juror was saying was that Edelin was convicted on the bare possibility that a legal victim of manslaughter--a living human being--existed after what McGuire ruled was a legal abortion. The law requires a reasonable certainty...
...respect his work. But does he want them to drive a Volvo too? He projects his own cultural alienation onto his subjects. Just as their outsider friends do, as though there's no viable culture in Appalachia. His style suffers for the same reason--the well written and thorough approach to the Sizemores only fails when Vecsey goes into the house and transcribers domestic babbling, the "universals" of home life. Or when he refers to people we already know as the "sensitive" so-and-so-or the "intense" Jess Calkins--as though the way people shine through their context...
...FOLKWAYS COLLECTION, with more volumes to come, is a pretty thorough examination of the entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...
...whether he wanted it or not. But that isn't like the kind, generous image he wanted to project on the television screen. If you're interested, such analysis of Freudian slips is about the best that can be made of these records. Otherwise, congressional transcripts are probably more thorough, and cheaper...
Over the past few months some people have accused the press of exacerbating the nation's bearish mood. They argue that the public wants some basis for hope and faith. We agree. But we also believe that economic maladies, like others, require thorough examination and sound diagnosis as the first steps toward a cure. As Vice President Rockefeller put it: "Problems and opportunities go together . . . I have confidence that we are going to find the right answers...