Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart also rejected the argument that restrictions on abortion force women to observe the doctrines of particular religious faiths. Said he, with a touch of casuistry: "That the Judaeo-Christian religions oppose stealing does not mean that a state or the Federal Government may not . . . enact laws prohibiting larceny." The court majority, Stewart emphasized, was not declaring the Hyde Amendment to be wise social policy-if it did, "not every Justice who has subscribed to the judgment of the court today could have done so"-but only that Congress did not violate the Constitution by enacting...
...past actually teems with an almost irrepressible life, especially in a nation as widely literate and elaborately documented as the U.S. The past constantly achieves renewals and transmogrifications as political symbol and polemical weapon. The present and the past are always in an almost constant state of argument and consultation. The past is shimmeringly changeable, always different with every change of angle, of perspective. Read the history of the Civil War from the South of perspective. Read the history of the Civil War from the Southern point of view, or of the American Revolution from the standpoint of the English...
...argument bruises old myths. In the crueler interpretation of the American idea, anyone who failed was more or less meant to fail. That logic may, more than any other single factor, explain the tragedy of race in America...
...Meanwhile, Begin assured U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis that the controversial transfer of his office to East Jerusalem was not imminent, although it would probably take place in the near future. Having committed himself to the move, Begin felt he could not reverse himself without losing face. That argument is flawed. Moving the Prime Minister's office to the predominantly Arab sector of Jerusalem could result only in the further, unnecessary isolation of Israel from its dwindling band of supporters...
...moral argument is not long or preachily dwelt on. Nor is a romance that might have developed between Redford and Jane Alexander, playing the Governor's aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have...