Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...source was the preamble to the Constitution of the U.S., and his aim was to bring reason rather than rhetoric to the discussion of crime. He called for speedy trials, for mandatory sentences in some cases of violent crime, for more humane treatment of convicts. The President returned to the old constitutional phrase, he said, because "I do not seek vindictive punishment of the criminal, but protection of the victim." Nor was crime, he noted, always committed on the street or in dark alleys. Alluding to the misdeeds of his predecessor, he said: "I have made it a matter...
Last week, when Mindszenty died in Vienna at 83, Pope Paul said of the man he had dismissed: "He was and certainly will continue to be a contradictory figure, the object of veneration and of violent attacks...
...Administration's handling of the development of the DuBois Institute, two facts were clear: (1) that the University would continue to ignore attempts at communication, and (2) that the University would continue to break promises made since 1969. In light of this it was felt that non-violent direct action was the only recourse Hence...
...made to work against its larger structure-Pisan Romanesque architecture, for instance, in which the complicated inlays and bands of black-and-white marble conspire to deny the overall shape of a fagade. This crystallized itself for her one day in Venice in 1960, as she watched a violent rain squall sweeping across the inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks...
EVENTUALLY, CLARA COLLAPSES at work; the doctor diagnoses incipient T.B. and prescribes six months at a government sanitorium in the mountains. In a prise de conscience precipitated by her husband's violent jealousy and his insistence that she sleep with him despite her illness, Clara realizes that if she doesn't look after her needs no one else will and goes off to the mountains in the face of her family's adamant disapproval. The sanitorium itself is a welfare state Magic Mountain, set in Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden...