Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered down that the Old Man wanted such and such to happen. And, miracle of miracles, it always did." Within this system, a career officer assigned as defense counsel often helps the miracle along by pleading his client guilty. "There is no such thing as a truly vigorous attempt...
...Mitzvah (a phrase, Christians will be interested to learn, which means "Son of the Commandment"). Some of the details even border on the esoteric: when the story of Joseph's temptation by Potiphar's wife is sung in synagogue, the book notes, the musical notation over the word "refused" is long and drawn-out, "suggesting that it was not easy for Joseph to turn away from this temptation...
...sections written as "I" and as "she." "She" is mostly the girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...
...case the word hasn't reached you yet, this film (now at the Paris Cinema) is the story of what happens when a bunch of black militants take over an ad agency. But the film isn't really about advertising or blacks. Putney Swope is rather a monument to chaos, a plea for insanity, an adversisement for anarchy...
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