Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unable to command enthusiasm, the Communist compel obedience. The hapless Chinese cannot speak his resentment publicly or before his child, who has been taught to spy on him, or in front of a friend, who may be an informer. He can display his disapproval only by sullen compliance or by loafing on the job. The opposition is real but unorganized: a silent resistance that shows up not in guerrilla successes but in production failures...
Dodge has been trying since last fall to compel Fingold to change his decision not to bring suit against the University. Fingold acted on an opinion prepared for him by Harris Booras, State Special Assistant for Trusts. Booras advised Fingold that the Corporation's plan to remove material from the Arboretum does not violate the terms of the Arnold trust...
...importance equal to the recently passed wire-tap law in bringing our crime fighting up to date, Lumbard said, is a statute allowing grand juries to compel witnesses to divulge all information that is asked for. He explained that while such a law would mean witnesses could no longer decline to answer on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment, a witness would be granted immunity on any answer that might incriminate...
...Administration's recommendations, however, can fill a conspicuous gap in this country's present security program. This is a bill that would permit the Government to compel testimony of those who invoked the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by granting them immunity from prosecution. For it is just this silence barrier that has given publicity-hungry investigators so many headlines in the past. Time after time, persons who have not testified for fear of self-incrimination have actually had nothing to hide, yet their actions have blown the subversives issue up to gigantic proportions. An immunity bill would clear...
...ferocity is also part of Mathieu's obvious desire to overpower the viewer and compel his attention. Two smaller pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...