Word: vincent
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...seance on a hot day in Orange County, Calif. Everything in the cloudless morning seemed like a memory of itself from long ago. Gene Autry stood and waved his white Stetson. Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale materialized. Bob Hope shambled slow-motion across the stage like an amiable pink hologram. Four Republican Presidents were there, and four First Ladies. The centerpiece, Richard Nixon's career, was laid out in a sort of waxen splendor. Scarcely a trace of the fatal accident showed...
...defending the one-man, one- vote principle to define state and local election districts. Yale Kamisar, a University of Michigan law professor, calls Brennan "one of the most effective Justices of all time. He could write with power and style, and he had enormous influence." Says Columbia law professor Vincent Blasi: "There have been great dissenters, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, and great leaders of court majorities, such as John Marshall. But Brennan was the only Justice in the court's history to excel in both roles...
Such severe sentences are usually reserved for premeditated crimes, like killings that take place during a robbery. Even then, however, authorities consider extenuating circumstances. In Maryland last year on May 6, Vincent Kennedy shot and killed a Nigerian-born taxi driver, Lucky Unuigboje Okoruwa, 24. Later Kennedy confessed the attempted robbery but insisted that his pistol had gone off accidentally when it bumped against Okoruwa's headrest. His claim, supported by FBI experts who examined his weapon, saved him from life without parole. Kennedy, 21, pleaded guilty in exchange for life plus 20 years, allowing him to become eligible...
...final male character is Vincent, a monk (Tom Hughes), who is also presented negatively. Though he is earnest and genuine, he represents a less natural, less sexual way of life. While he does not sexually exploit women as the two most evil male characters do, this is due to his priestly duties and possibly to his homosexuality. As a representative of Christianity, he influences, through religion, the two women in the work who most fail to live to the potential of their own womanhood. The first, the elder Etain (Patty Goldman), Conor's mother, dies in child birth seemingly because...
...upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped 50% in Los Angeles County. Says Henry Der of Chinese for Affirmative Action: "We're still vulnerable because of what we look like...