Word: unreasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honolulu in 1931, a train of events that was to lead to murder and the crass mishandling of justice. As a crime story, the Massie case had everything; it was one of those lurid combinations of violence and unreason that not only command horrified attention at the time they happen but make for compelling reading when reconstructed later. Peter Van Slingerland, a freelance journalist, retells the case with the crisp assurance of a good crime reporter. He claims to have done even more-more than the authorities were able to do at the time. He identifies the man who killed...
...missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...
KING LEAR (Caedmon) is a regal fool who topples into the abyss of unreason to discover the naked truth of the human condition. Paul Scofield is a cool, knowledgeable, self-contained actor who would not dream of venturing past the proscenium arch. In consequence, the recording neither sears nor scars; it might be a useful high school text...
...factories got a sharp jolt last week. "You demand facts, facts, facts," Guest Speaker A. L. Sachar, president of Brandeis, told the entering class at the University of Illinois. What they need just as much, he insisted, is values to serve "in a world where the harsh voice of unreason cries down the generous passions," and "the elasticity of your minds will be a shield." On campuses across the U.S., college presidents were playing up the value of values...
Through a Glass Darkly. A wise and warm and frightening picture in which Ingmar Bergman tells the story of a young woman (Harriet Andersson) who looks through a crack in the wall that limits reason from unreason and on the other side sees God-an enormous spider...