Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purposes of the American Law Institute, founded 32 years ago by Statesman Elihu Root, is "to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs." Up for discussion before the institute last week was a Model Penal Code, covering sex and other offenses, which state legislatures can use as a guide. In explaining their approach to sex laws, the code's drafters said: "The code does not attempt to use the power of the state to enforce purely moral or religious standards. We deem it inappropriate for the Government to attempt to control...
...years) Judge John J. Parker, 69, of the U.S. Fourth Circuit (Richmond) Court of Appeals, opposed the argument that private homosexuality should not be enjoined by the law merely because the law, pragmatically, cannot stop it. Said he: "There are many things that are denounced by the criminal code in order that society may know that the state disapproves . . . When we fly in the face of public opinion, evidenced by the code of every state in this Union, we are not proposing a code which will commend itself ... to the thoughtful members of the profession." Not so, thought venerable...
...live in tiny pavilions in the Garden of Love and hold intimate midnight conversations behind closed curtains with prospective converts. It becomes increasingly clear that the worship of Astarte (Hollywood version) is the direct ancestor of present-day burlesque: High Priestess Lana, wearing as few beads as the Production Code, will permit, promenades along a runway above her audience, using every classic nuance of the stripteaser's hesitation walk while, as comedy relief, High Priest Louis Calhern lurches onstage in a funny hat and baggy costume, just like an oldtime Dutch comic at Minsky...
...adjacent Nassau County, Medical Society President Stuart Potter snorted: "Shocking and deplorable." Vice President Samuel Freedman of the New York County Medical Society said that the situation "is to be deplored and is not condoned." The city's board of health jammed through an amendment to the sanitary code, stipulating that doctors' prescriptions must show the age of each patient to receive the vaccine. "This," said an official, "is to shame the doctors into following the voluntary priority...
Trevor Howard handles the part of Scobie with a degree of reserve that would seem almost painful if it were not the only way the role could be done. His understanding of a man whose code of justice and firm Catholicism meet a situation in which they seem useless, is evident throughout the film. Maria Schell, as the Austrian refugee girl with whom Scobie falls in love while his wife is on vacation, manages superbly to make her character sympathetic and pitiful without a touch of the maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible...