Word: utterness
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...Cleopatra and the shocks from that courtship broke every seismograph in the empire. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 34, and Richard Burton, 40, are about to relive the tale in Elizabethan style. In Rome they will begin shooting The Taming of the Shrew, which will give Richard an opportunity to utter Petruchio's immortal line: "Why, there's a wench...
However, the most troubling aspect of an otherwise helpful discussion of the modern Presidency is Burns's utter contempt for the other branches of the Federal government. With his theory of four-party politics in America (developed in his earlier volume, Deadlock of Democracy), Burns seems to suggest that Congress might just as well be retired completely. The Congressional wings (as opposed to the Presidential wings) of both major parties, he says, are lodged in an antiquated institution which has merely slowed down the business of American government and threatened personal liberty...
...futurists, as they sometimes call themselves, are well aware of past failures of vision. Soon after World War II, top U.S. scientists dismissed and derided the notion of an accurate intercontinental ballistic missile, and as late as 1956, Britain's Astronomer Royal called the prospect of space travel "utter bilge." Relying on the atom's almost limitless energy, the computer's almost limitless "intellect," the futurists predict an era of almost limitless change. With remarkable confidence, and in considerable detail, they present a view of man not only in total control of his environment...
...President was supremely aware that for all the advice he received, the final choice and the responsibility for its consequences were his alone. "One man has the decision to make," said a high-ranking U.S. official in Saigon, "and until he does, no one here is going to utter a squeak. The ultimate implications of that decision are simply...
...even understand the collection of words attributed to me in Wednesday's CRIMSON article about the American Law Institute's proposed Prearraignment Code. I certainly did not utter them...