Word: commitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two kinds of revolutionaries: those truly committed to the ideals of peace and freedom, and those whose only impulse is to destroy, murder, and plunder. The Palestinian terrorists belong to this second group--under the cover of revolutionary jargon they commit atrocities reminiscent of those committed against the Jewish People by another group of degenerative revolutionaries--the Nazis. To equate Israel's punitive and deterrent raids with the nazi-like bestiality of Palestinian terrorists is patently ridiculous. Though the loss to humanity may be similar, there is a true difference in the aims, rationality, and justification of such...
Love and Anarchy is not, however, a proletarian version of Day of the Jackal. It is equally about Tunin's being able to bring himself to commit this act of violence and about his love affair with a young whore (Lina Polito), who arouses and assuages him as the day of assassination draws closer. Tunin is no bold gunman. He is assaulted by fear, lulled by affection for the whore. It is never certain that he will be able to make his slightly mad attempt on Mussolini...
...were aghast at the damning evidence against Nixon. Chicago Professor Philip B. Kurland, one of the nation's leading experts on the Constitution and a consultant to the Senate Watergate Committee, said that he found "strong evidence" in the transcripts that Nixon was guilty of inducing his aides to commit perjury and of obstructing justice?both indictable crimes and therefore impeachable offenses by Nixon's own definition. Kurland added: "I can't find either ambiguity or any evidence which tends to exonerate him." Dean Michael Severn of Columbia University Law School looked closely at the transcript for the crucial March...
...order declares that people are "living in a state of fear" in the city. The decision to commit state police now rests in the hands of Gov. Francis W. Sargent...
...plot's broader outlines have to do with a witch's curse that dooms each baronet of Ruddigore to commit a crime a day, on pain of an agonizing death administered by his ancestors. They're so utterly ridiculous that Gilbert apparently lost all interest in them, tacking on a perfunctory legalistic technicality of an ending to take off the curse and bring the ancestors to life--selectively, because he didn't have enough female leads to marry them...