Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times, the jog down the byways of the romantic era seemed not worth the effort. With utter seriousness, Butler's dancers performed the ballet from Meyerbeer's 1831 opera Robert le Diable, a spooky medieval tale that pits a young knight against the seductive forces of the Devil; about the best that can be said for it is that the knight ultimately triumphs. In an attempt to convey the lacquered elegance of a 19th century Paris salon, chamber music soloists performed in a drawing-room setting. They were surrounded on stage by formally attired Indianapolis socialites seated...
...guilt-ridden thirty-year-olds can't understand the utter elasticity of the youthful perception. A man who spends his life working for change through teaching or preaching or doctoring can't be blamed for resenting the arrogant put-down of his life's effort...
...Maryland statute provides for a maximum of six months and $100 "if any person, by writing or speaking, shall blaspheme or curse God, or shall write or utter any profane words of and concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ, or of and concerning the Trinity, or any of the persons thereof." Similar statutes exist in half the states in the U.S. Most of them can be traced back to England and the 17th century, when penalties were harsh. In an early Maryland version of the law, first offenders had a hole bored through their tongues with a hot iron, second-timers...
...join the people of the Third World, students and working people everywhere, as well as mothers with children and the powerless generations yet unborn, in Demanding an end to complicity with any and all agents of death and oppression. We demand the utter dissolution of ROTC and the extirpation of all "research" activities related to weaponry, counterinsurgency and the rape of this and neighboring planets. Killing is impermissible; if academic freedom found no place for the activities of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, no great vacuum will be left by the departure of the military...
...frustration: "We all know that the two biggest words in the English language are 'national defense.' If you just shout them loud enough, you are in the clear. It is just plain unpatriotic to question any appropriation for national defense. Defense against what? It does not matter. Just utter the magic words." Nelson's complaint was not considered much of an exaggeration ?only a year ago. Now, suddenly, the words seem to have lost their magic. Now another Senator notes that wherever he goes, "one sure applause line is a condemnation of the growing influence of the military...